A Comparative Study to assess the level of knowledge regarding Biomedical Waste Management among staff Nurses in selected hospital of Udaipur

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 554
Author(s):  
Rohit Yadav ◽  
Dashrath Menaria ◽  
Monika Bhatia ◽  
Rajendra Meghwal ◽  
Roopchand Meena ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

scholarly journals A Descriptive Study on Knowledge of Registered Nurses Regarding Hospital Protocols on Biomedical Waste and Spillage Management and Needle Stick Injury in a Selected Hospital

2016 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 045-047
Author(s):  
Pramila Dsouza ◽  
Savitha Pramilda Cutinho ◽  
Benita Reema D'Silva ◽  
Lanisha Sharon D'Souza ◽  
Dainy Reshma D'Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Needle Stick Injury ◽  
Needle Stick ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Good Level ◽  
Level Of Knowledge

Abstract Background: Infection control is a major component in health care practices. The health care team while providing services of curative, promotive or preventive, inevitably create waste and also cause injury which may be hazardous to health. Poor waste management practices pose a huge risk to the health of public, patients, professionals and also contribute to environmental degradation. Nurses as the part of health care personnel is expected to have proper knowledge, practice, and 6 capacity to guide others for waste collection, management, and proper handling techniques. Method: A descriptive study was conducted to assess the knowledge of nurses on biomedical waste Management, spillage management and to determine needle stick injury among 210 registered nurses working in various wards of selected hospital. The convenient sampling technique was used to select the subjects. Baseline proforma and structured knowledge questionnaire was used to collect the data and data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Result: In this study it has been found that the majority of staff nurses (78.6%) had good level of knowledge, 18.1% had very good level of knowledge and 3.33% had satisfactory level of knowledge on Biomedical Waste and Spillage Management and Needle Stick Injury. Conclusion: The findings of the study have shown that majority of staff nurses have good level of knowledge on Biomedical Waste and Spillage Management and Needle Stick Injury.

scholarly journals Study of biomedical waste management among healthcare personnel at a Tertiary hospital in Lucknow district

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 1483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsusennaro Imchen ◽  
Reema Kumari ◽  
J. V. Singh ◽  
Kirti Srivastava ◽  
Anshita Singh
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Healthcare Personnel ◽  
Hepatitis B Vaccination ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Healthcare Needs ◽  
Waste Segregation ◽  
And Training

Background: Healthcare facilities are like a double-edged sword, it caters to the healthcare needs and problems of the people by providing curative, promotive or preventive services but in the process it inevitably produces waste which in itself is hazardous to health if not managed properly. In order to improve biomedical waste management, it is important to understand and evaluate the current practices in biomedical waste management, to identify the gaps and to address them. The study was conducted to assess the practice of biomedical waste management among the healthcare personnel at a tertiary hospital.Methods: A hospital based cross sectional study was conducted among 314 healthcare personnel which comprised of 193 doctors, 85 staff nurses and 36 laboratory technicians. A pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Results: A total of 78% healthcare personnel had received training on BMW management. Most of the doctors (76.2%), staff nurses (70.6%) and laboratory technicians (72.2%) had received hepatitis B vaccination. And as for injection TT, 76.2% doctors, 85.9% staff nurses and 69.4% laboratory technicians had received it. Multivariate logistic regression showed association between waste segregation practices and occupation status and training which was statistically significant. Conclusions: The study revealed satisfactory practices among the healthcare personnel. It also showed association between waste segregation practices and training on BMW management. The importance of training regarding biomedical waste management cannot be overemphasized, training and retraining on healthcare waste management should be given to healthcare personnel. 

scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Biomedical Waste Management as Per 2019 Rules among Nursing Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Surya Kant Tiwari ◽  
Saumya P. Srivastava ◽  
Soni Chauhan
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Clinical Exposure ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Periodic Monitoring ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Student's Attitudes

Introduction- Biomedical waste is of global subject today. The biomedical waste (management and handling) rules came into existence in 1998 with the latest amendment being made in 2019. Methods- This descriptive cross-sectional study was carried among 163 nursing students to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding biomedical waste management as per 2019 rules using total enumeration method. Nursing students who had clinical exposure >6 months and willing to participate were included in the study. Nursing students who were in their 1st academic year were excluded. The questionnaire was divided into four components assessing knowledge, attitude, and practices regarding biomedical waste management. The obtained scores of participants were converted into percentages and categorized as excellent (> 70%) and poor (< 70%). Results- Mean age of participants was 21.54 + 2.49 years with the majority being female (81.6%) and studying in B.Sc. nursing (59.5%). Majority of participants had poor level of knowledge in various domains of biomedical waste management like awareness (78.5%), color coding (84.7%), biomedical waste disposal methods (92.6%), and universal precautions (97.5%) except for biomedical waste hazard symbol (15.3%). About 95.1% of participants had overall poor knowledge regarding biomedical waste management. Nearly 76.1% and 74.2% of participants showed positive attitudes and safe practice patterns respectively. Conclusion- Although nursing student’s attitudes and patterns of practice were excellent yet they had an unsatisfactory level of knowledge related to recent amendments in biomedical waste management rules, 2019. Regular teaching and periodic monitoring of practices regarding biomedical waste are highly recommended. Key words: knowledge, attitude, practices, biomedical waste, nursing students.

scholarly journals BIO-MEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT RULES 2016. ARE THE HEALTH CARE WORKERS AWARE? – EVALUATION OF AN INTERVENTION.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthi M ◽  
Surendar R ◽  
Srikanth S ◽  
Latha S ◽  
Radhika .
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Medical Waste Management

Background: Biomedical waste has become a crucial health hazard in many countries including India. Careless and indiscriminate disposal of these wastes can contribute to the spread of serious diseases. The new guideline of Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules -2016 was released on March, 2016 and revised in 2018. In order to update the new rules periodically, the present study was carried out with the aim to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice on biomedical waste management among health care workers working in a tertiary hospital in Puducherry and to evaluate the effectiveness of sensitisation program regarding 2016 Bio-medical waste management rules. Methods: All staff nurses and nursing assistants working at SVMCH & RC, Puducherry were included. Study period was between August and October 2016. About 103 willing participants were included.The participants were assessed by pre-test and post-test with a semi-structured questionnaire. Dataanalysed using SPSS (version 23).Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compare pre-test and post-test score. Chi-square and Fisher’s exact tests were applied to find the significant difference before and after intervention. Results:Among total participants (103), 83.5% of the participants were Staff Nurses, 10.7% Female Nursing Assistant and rest Auxiliary Nursing Mid-wife. About 68 % of them have reported that it is the sole responsibility of the Government in proper management of Bio-medical waste and 27.2% of them reported that procedures involved in Bio-Medical Waste Management (BMWM) are increasing the financial burden of their hospital.Regarding identification of the symbol of bio-hazard, there was a significant increase in knowledge in the post-test when compared to the pre-test. About 40.8% (42) of participants had poor knowledge about BMW in pre test. Regarding attitude and practice, in the pre-test, around 59% have said that they will report about any injury due to or during wrong disposal whereas in the post-test it has been increased to 78% which is statistically significant (p<0.05). About 89.3% of the participants reported that they are having the practice of wearing gloves while handling BMW in pre-test whereas in the post-test, 94.2% has reported. Overall mean and standard deviation of pre-test and post-test scores regarding BMW shows a statistically significant improvement in KAP score regarding biomedical waste management and new rules in the post-test after interventionthan the pre-test. Conclusions:The knowledge of the participants regarding management of bio-medical waste is still in its childhood stage.There was an evident increase after administration of sensitisation program.

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES RELATED TO BIOMEDICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT AMONG STAFF OF A TERTIARY CARE GOVERNMENT TEACHING HOSPITAL IN LUCKNOW

2021 ◽  
pp. 22-24
Author(s):  
Anitta Jose Ellenkil ◽  
Anila Varghese ◽  
Nitin Dutt Bharadwaj ◽  
U B Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Staff Nurses ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Study Participants

Health care workers have an important role in managing the bio medical waste and periodic studies should be carried out in order to identify the gaps with respect to knowledge and practices of healthcare workers. This cross-sectional study was undertaken in a government tertiary care teaching hospital in Lucknow between June 2019 and June 2020. Sample size was calculated to be 407 and population proportion sampling was used. Data collection was done using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire translated to Hindi which was administered by the researcher to assess knowledge and attitudes. An observational checklist was used to assess the practices of bio medical waste management. Majority (72%) of the study participants had received training in biomedical waste management. Mean score of knowledge about Biomedical waste management rule was highest for doctors, followed by staff nurses and housekeeping staffs and paramedical staffs. Positive attitude was more among the paramedical staffs followed by doctors and housekeeping staffs. With respect to practice, highest mean score was observed for staff nurses followed by housekeeping staffs. Periodic trainings and appreciation will go a long way in reinforcing the good practices.

scholarly journals COVID-19 Biomedical Waste Management: Knowledge Assessment Among Medical Professionals in a COVID-19 Dedicated Hospital, a Cross Sectional Study.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aiman Perween Afsar ◽  
Lovenish Bains ◽  
Anurag Mishra ◽  
Aashima Dabaas ◽  
Akshit Mittal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Knowledge Score ◽  
North India ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Health Care Waste

Abstract Background Nations have faced significant challenges with the COVID-19 related biomedical waste since its outbreak. Before the pandemic, Indian hospitals typically generated 500g of BMW per bed each day, which has now risen to about 2.5-4 kg per bed per day. Proper BMW aims to reduce waste generation, ensures efficient collection, handling and safe disposal that it controls infection and improves safety for the medical professionals. Hence, the present study was conducted to assess the level of knowledge among medical professionals regarding biomedical waste segregation , transport and treatment and thereafter provide constructive suggestions to reduce mismanagement practices. Methodology An e-survey was done to assess the knowledge and awareness of management of Biomedical Waste generated due to Covid-19 among Medical Professionals (students, residents and consultants) of tertiary care hospital of North India. Result The average knowledge score about BMW waste generated due to Covid-19 was found to be: for segregation - 27.46%, 59.615%, and 49.8%; transport of waste from site of generation to the site of disposal- 63.66%, 89.1% and 95.2% ; disposal of waste generated- 29%, 71.96%, and 68.24% in students, residents, and consultants respectively. Overall, the knowledge score was 41.4%, 67.98%, and 61.34% among the students, residents and consultants respectively. We found that participants with greater years of experience (residents and consultants) had better knowledge compared to that of the students(p<0.05). Discussion Our study found that the mean score was 56.9% which is comparably more than the knowledge score of few Low and Middle Income Countries but less than the knowledge score of some European countries. Studies have found that the chances of infection directly correlates with the low level of knowledge. This underlines that training aspects of health-care waste management should be strengthened, not only for the practising medical professionals but also of the students so that the current, existing, and future regulations are practiced diligently and uniformly. Hence, it is important that we strengthen the training aspect of medical professionals. Periodic evaluation and assessment should become routine to enforce adherence to waste management.

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