Nonhospital Health-Care Workers At Substantial Risk Of Exposure To Bloodborne Pathogens

In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health assessed the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens among non-hospital based registered nurses (RNs), and found that nearly one out of 10 of the more than 1100 nurse participants reported at least one needlestick injury in the previous 12 months. Findings of the study are published in the December issue of Industrial Health. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Nursing on December 24th, 2007