Background: Unsafe injection practices put patients and healthcare providers at risk of infectious and non-infectious adverse events, sound knowledge and skillful practices of nurses are vital to breaks the chain of blood borne diseases transmission caused by unsafe injection practices.

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Medicine & Public Health
ISSN: 2455-5479
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2. RESEARCH ARTICLE
Injection Safety: Knowledge and Practices among
Nursing Personnel in Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital
of Marathwada Region of Maharashtra, India
 Rohini S Kulkarni*, Purushottam A Giri and Pankaj R
Gangwal
 *Corresponding author: Mrs. Rohini S Kulkarni, Nursing
Superintendent, Noor Hospital and IIMSR Medical College,
Badnapur, Jalna, Maharashtra, India.
 Dates: Received: 06 June, 2016; Accepted: 23 June, 2016;
Published: 25 June, 2016
 Citation: Kulkarni RS, Giri PA, Gangwal PR (2016) Injection
Safety: Knowledge and Practices among Nursing Personnel in
Tertiary Care Teaching Hospital of Marathwada Region of
Maharashtra, India. Arch Community Med Public Health 2(1):
018-021. DOI: 10.17352/2455-5479.000011.

3. Abstract
 Background: Unsafe injection practices put patients and
healthcare providers at risk of infectious and non-infectious
adverse events, sound knowledge and skillful practices of nurses
are vital to breaks the chain of blood borne diseases
transmission caused by unsafe injection practices.
 Objectives: To assess the knowledge and practices amongst
nurses regarding injection safety in tertiary care teaching
Hospital of Marathwada Region of Maharashtra, India.
 Methods: A cross section study was carried out from April to May
2016 in tertiary care teaching hospital of Marathwada region of
Maharashtra, India. A total of 70 nurses were enrolled in this
study. A pre-designed questionnaire which assessed knowledge
and practices regarding injection safety tool was used to collect
data. Results were analyzed using frequency, means, and
percentage whenever appropriate.

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