Occupational safety in nurses working in a tertiary care hospital in Turkey

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Gulsah Camci ◽  
Sidika Oguz ◽  
Turabi Karadag ◽  
Betul Bayrak
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Work Patterns ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Mean Values

Abstract Objective: To determine the occupational safety of nurses working in a tertiary care hospital. Methods: The cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital at Kocaeli University, Turkey, from January to March 2016, and comprised nurses working at the hospital. A questionnaire and the occupational safety scale were used to collect data. The Occupational Safety Scale has seven subscales. Frequencies, percentages, mean values and standard deviations were calculated during data analysis. Results: Of the 200 nurses, 180(90%) were female and 88(44%) had 6-11 years of professional experience. The overall mean score of the scale was 2.593±0.770. Nurses working in daytime had better score on the healthcare screening and registry systems subscale compared to nurses working in shifts (p=0.020). There were no differences between the other subscales and work patterns (p>0.05). Conclusion: The nurses were found to have poor occupational safety. Key Words: Nurse, Occupational safety, Occupational health, Occupational disease Continuous...

Seroprevalence of HBV, HCV, HIV, syphilis, and malaria among blood donors at tertiary care hospital blood bank

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Hira Qadir ◽  
Nadia Nasir ◽  
Shaheen Kouser ◽  
Huma Mansoori ◽  
Nida Qadir ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Blood Donors ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Blood Bank ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Disease Markers ◽  
The Mean

Abstract Objective:To ascertain the frequency of markers of transfusion-transmitted infections. among blood donors in a blood bank at a tertiary care hospital Material and Methods:The study was a retrospective cross-sectional descriptive study, covering from 1stJanuary 2013- October 2018 and was conducted in the blood bank section, in the Department of Pathology at Dow University of HealthSciences, Hospital. All blood donors were screened for hepatitis B, hepatitis C, HIV (I & II), syphilis through electrochemiluminescence and malaria (immunochromatography).Data was entered and subsequently analyzed by statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 21. The frequency of infectious disease markers (HbsAg, Anti HCV, HIV, syphilis, and malaria) was calculated among blood donors. Results:The total number of donors in our study was 29732, out of which 2587 donors were positive for an infectious disease.Out of the total donors, 29712 were male and 20 were female. There were 12 volunteer donors and 29720 exchange donors. The mean prevalence of donors with positive infectious markers was as follows; Anti HCV was 3 %, HbsAg was 2.9%, Syphilis was 2.0%, HIV was 0.5% and Malaria was 0.02 %. Conclusion:HbsAg and Anti HCV were the most frequent infections (3%) found in our blood donors, followed by syphilis with a frequency of 2%. Keywords: Blood transfusion, transfusion-transmitted infections, blood donors.

scholarly journals Prevalence of CIN by Colposcopy among the Patient of Clinically Unhealthy Cervix in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Rajshahi

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
S Jesmin ◽  
Shroddha Nivedita Paul ◽  
Some Rose Pervin ◽  
Forida Islam
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Punch Biopsy ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Good Information ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
I 18 ◽  
Cin Iii

We evaluate 600 patient with clinically unhealthy cervix with colposcope and cervical punch biopsy was taken from each patient for further evaluation.Patient & Methods: This is a cross sectional descriptive study carried out in colposcopy center of RMCH from January to December 2014. We reviewed all patient aged 18 to 60 years having clinically unhealthy cervix, who attended colposcopy center during study period.Results: Among 600 patient with unhealthy cervix 150 patient present with cervical erosion that is 25% patient present with erosion, 96 patient presented with congestion that is 16% with congestion, 30 patient presented with polyp that is 5%, 84 patient presented with excessive P/V discharge that is 14%, 73 patient with hypertrophied cervix that is 12%, patient with hypertrophied cervix and among all patient 96 patient was colposcopically diagnosed as CIN (72 with CIN-I, 12 with CIN-II, 12 with CIN-III, that is 16% patient has CIN, in 97 patient findings was unsatisfactory. Histopathologically 72 has CIN, among these 48 has CIN-I, 18 with CIN-II, & 6 with CIN-III that is 12% patient was histopathologically diagnosed as CIN. And 6 patient diagnosed as invasive carcinoma.Conclusion: So from this study we get a good information regarding prevalence of CIN among unhealthy looking cervix. And there is good correlation between colposcopy & histopathology findings.TAJ 2013; 26: 3-7

scholarly journals Wastage of rarest blood and blood components can be stopped: 9 years retrospective and cross-sectional study at tertiary hospital

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 3678
Author(s):  
Balkrishna H. Namdhari ◽  
Tapasya V. Bharati ◽  
Ashish P. Shinde
Keyword(s):  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Blood Components ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Inventory of blood/blood components suffer due to outdating of Rh Negative units. Rationale of this article is strategy of transfusion of O Rh Negative red cells to all. A Rh Negative red cells can be given to A Rh Positive, AB Rh Positive. B Rh Negative red cells can be given to B Rh Positive, AB Rh Positive. AB Rh Negative red cells to AB Rh Positive recipients. AB Rh Negative FFP/PRP can be given to all. Objective was to avoid out dating of Rh Negatives by studying the percentage of outdated Rh Negative units amongst the all outdated.Methods: This was 9 years observational, retrospective, cross sectional and descriptive study conducted at tertiary care hospital. Outdated units of Rh Negative blood and components were analysed from the year wise discard registers of blood bank. Percentage of Rh Negative units within all outdated units were calculated.Results: 198 Rh Negative units of whole blood and blood components within all outdated units was 29.11%. Out of 198 the 20 Rh Negative blood components were discarded.Conclusions: Adopt type and screen protocol to prevent outdating. Avoid to bleed the rare blood groups. Audit by hospital transfusion committee and implementation of MSBOS. Track O Rh Negative red cells transfusion to Rh Positive as quality indicator. Track/review transfusion of O Rh negative red cells to Non O Rh negative recipients. Track AB Rh Negative FFP/PRP transfusions to all.

scholarly journals Cornerstone of healthcare: awareness and compliance of patient safety measures in a large tertiary care hospital

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 3795
Author(s):  
Sonali Shamdasani ◽  
Gurpreet Kaur ◽  
R. K. Ganjoo
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
The Other ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Safety Measures ◽  
Other Hand

Background: The study was done to assess the awareness and compliance of patient safety measures among healthcare providers and patients in a tertiary care hospital in India, ascertain the gap in both the aspects, if any and recommend the measures to improve the same.Methods: Cross sectional study in which patient safety survey was administered to random sample of 400 healthcare providers and 200 inpatients. The awareness was assessed through predefined questionnaires and compliance was assessed by observation, demonstration of processes, audit of patient files and interview of patients. Descriptive statistics analyzed with SPSS. Data was analyzed using frequencies, percentages and using Chi-square test.Results: The level of awareness was acceptable among healthcare providers, but the compliance was not satisfactory. Thus, gap was significant for certain parameters. The range of awareness among the patients was wide as study included patients of varying demographic and educational level. The range of compliance was also wide but was low. Thus, the gap was significant.Conclusions: As a result of continuous training of the healthcare providers, the awareness was satisfactory but on the other hand, they were not complying which may be due to workload, forgetfulness, lack of resources etc. On the other hand, the level of awareness was found to be low among patients and compliance was further lower down the ladder which may be due to difference in education, socioeconomic status, hesitation to enquire etc.

Confidence toward vaccination as reported by parents of children admitted to a tertiary care hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: A cross sectional study

Vacunas ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.M. AlGoraini ◽  
N.N. AlDujayn ◽  
M.A. AlRasheed ◽  
Y.E. Bashawri ◽  
S.S. Alsubaie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Tertiary Care Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional
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