According to the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) there are more than 18,000 reports of accidental needle stick injuries to nurses caused by syringes or other sharp items in Australia each year.

Nurses frequently experience injuries at work — including strains, sprains and needle sticks — and newly licensed nurses are at a greater risk for these injuries than more experienced nurses, ...

Nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals suffer around 800,000 needlestick injuries in U.S. hospitals every year, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information and a FOX ...

The needlestick injury happened when the nurse was recapping a used needle The nurse got the monkeypox vaccine within hours of the incident Testing of the lesion on the puncture site turned out ...

ANA released these findings from the 2008 Study of Nurses’ Views on Workplace Safety and Needlestick Injuries, an independent nationwide survey of more than 700 nurses. “An overwhelming majority of ...

[Asia Economy Reporter Jo In-kyung] As the COVID-19 pandemic prolonged and the medical sector experienced strikes, voices calling for the recognition of nurses' hard work and improvement of their ...

A nurses’ union in California is celebrating what it calls a first-in-the-nation workplace safety benefit in its new agreement with Centinela Hospital. Approved in December, the contract between the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A Florida nurse has developed monkeypox infection after an accidental needlestick exposure in the first case of ...

MORE THAN 20 types of infections, including the deadly HIV, Hepatitis B (HBV) and Hepatitis C (HCV), could occur due to needle stick injuries (NSI), says Dr D S Chitnis. MORE THAN 20 types of ...

A Florida hospital nurse was exposed to monkeypox through a needlestick in July, representing the nation’s first confirmed case from a healthcare exposure, the CDC said Oct. 17. The emergency ...