Ensuring the safety of patients and health care workers

1
Ensuring the safety of patients and health care
workers

• Rudolph Cini
• First Vice President
• International Council of Nurses

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ICN Calls For-

• Appropriate national occupational health and
  safety legislation
• Mechanisms for worker participation in monitoring
  and eliminating hazards
• Sufficient resources

3
Clinical Blood Safety

• Safe and appropriate use of blood and blood
  products
• Adequate waste disposal systems
• Removal of incorrect and unsafe practices
• Avoidance of financial costs and delays
• Avoidance of risks to patient and health worker
  safety

4
Safe Needle Devices

• One in eight Health Care Workers experience
  needle stick injury potentially exposing them to
  serious or fatal infections
• 12 billion injections each year
• 30 of vaccine injections in developing countries
  thought unsafe

5
Preventing Injury

• Auto-destruct syringe
• Needleless or Jet injection
• Retractable needle
• Protective sheath or Hinged re-cap

6
Access to Protective Equipment

• Safer needle devices
• Impermeable gowns
• Face shields
• Eye protection
• Leg and shoe coverings

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Caring For Carers

• Wellness Centres
• Mobile Nursing Libraries
• Positive Practice Environments

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Thank You

• International Council of Nurses
• 3 Place Jean-Marteau
• Geneva, 1201
• Switzerland