Investigation and Countermeasure on Occupational Injuries of Nursing Staff in the First-level and the Second-level Hospitals of Hongkou District in Shanghai

摘要

[Objective] To investigate the main occupational injuries and the protective status of nursing staff, to give proofs about setting up protective ideas and taking corresponding actions of occupation protection better. [Methods] Questionnaires are used among 412 nursing staff in 7 hospitals (5 of the first-level hospital, 2 of the second-level hospitals) to investigate the main occupational injuries and the protective status. The data was analyzed for frequency and tested for significance using the statistical software SPSS computer package. [Results] The main occupational injuries of nursing staff were needle stick injuries, surgery instrument injures and disinfector injuries. The surgery instrument injuries and blames from patients were more serious in the second-level hospitals than in the first-level hospital, the protective status was worse in the first-level hospital than in the second-level hospital. [Conclusion] The governor of hospital should attach importance to education of occupational protection, and systems of occupational injuries reporting, monitoring and treating should be set up as soon as possible.