Study of Needle Stick Injuries Status and its Effective Factors among Nurses

Needle Stick Injury (NSI) is one of the important aspects of safety in healthcare centers which has major
negative impact on staff and patients health. So, this study aims to assess NSIs status and its effective factors among nurses.
Materials & Methods: This is a cross-sectional study which was done in Tabriz Imam Reza hospital using a researcher-made
questionnaire. The obtained data are initially analyzed descriptively and then the relationship between background variables and NSIs
aspects was assessed using statistical tests. All of analyses were conducted using SPSS16 and in all cases the significance of P was
considered as less than 0.05.
Results: The study results showed that 34.3% of the nurses have had NSIs in the past year and its rate has been average 0.74 time per
person annually. Also, it was revealed that there is a significant relationship between NSIs exposure and the variables of job, educational
field, job experience and the hospital ward. It was shown that the graduated and working nurses, individual with less than five years of
job experience and who working in operation rooms are more exposed with NSIs.
Conclusions: The study results indicate that the status of NSIs in nurses is not satisfactory. It is clear that improvement of this condition
requires designing and implementing effective interventions from health managers.