The real situation of safe injection at the Institute of Clinical Infectious Diseases, 108 Military Central Hospital in 2018

  • Nguyen Huong Lan 108 Military Central Hospital
  • Nguyen Duy Truong 108 Military Central Hospital
  • Le Thi Que 108 Military Central Hospital
  • Nguyen Thi Thu Hien 108 Military Central Hospital

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Keywords

Nurse, safe injection

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the real situation of safe injection and finding out some factors affecting the real situation of safe injection at the Institute of Clinical Infectious Diseases, 108 Military Central Hospital in 2018. Subject and method: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 40 nurses and 308 observed injectionsat the Institute of Clinical Infectious Diseases, in 108 Military Central Hospital in 2018. Result and conclusion: The proportion of correct answers to knowledge about safe injections with a high prevalence (97.5%). The risk behaviors such as hand hygiene and wearing personal protective equipments before injection (75%); used gloves during injection and intravenous infusion (90%); correct techniques of breaking ampoules (77.5%) and correct storing needles for taking medicine on multi-dose vials (75%); correct disinfection of injection areas (42.5%); sorting and handling of syringes after injection (50%); fulfill 5 corectly injection criterias (86%); instructing and returning the patient to the proper position after injection (65.9%); correct sorting of waste after injection (96.1%); hand hygiene after injection (79.2%). Qualifications and number of years of working did not affect the safe injection practice.

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