Online ISSN: 2515-8260

Needle stick injuries as an occupational hazard: awareness, perception and practices amongst nurses in a premier tertiary care hospital of Northern India

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Pranay Mahajan1, Sonia Shinde2, Navin Pandey3, Yashpal Sharma3, Vipin Kousal3,

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Background: Healthcare workers are highly prone to contract serious blood-borne infections as common occupational hazard. These infections are most commonly acquired through needle stick (percutaneous) injuries (NSI), nurses being most commonly affected staff category.

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