Preventing Needlestick and Sharps Injuries
Preventing Needlestick and Sharps Injuries
Since 1992, hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the United States and the world have used the Exposure Prevention Information Network (EPINet®) as a tool to survey and measure occupational exposures to blood and body fluids. This network is designed to help you and your facility identify safer devices, safer practices, and innovative approaches to reducing occupational exposures to blood and body fluids. EPINet helps identify where infectious exposures are occurring in U.S. hospitals and allows you to compare them to what's happening in your facility. The International Safety Center distributes EPINet free to hospitals to measure occupational exposures to blood and body fluid that cause illness and infection in the working population.
High-risk injuries from contaminated sharps and exposures, such as mucocutaneous splashes and splatters, pose an unparalleled risk to nurses. Infectious threats, such as Ebola virus, measles reemergence, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), require us to keep an ever-steady focus on surveying and measuring risk so we can mitigate and prevent it. EPINet allows us to do that.
Introduction
Since 1992, hospitals and healthcare facilities throughout the United States and the world have used the Exposure Prevention Information Network (EPINet®) as a tool to survey and measure occupational exposures to blood and body fluids. This network is designed to help you and your facility identify safer devices, safer practices, and innovative approaches to reducing occupational exposures to blood and body fluids. EPINet helps identify where infectious exposures are occurring in U.S. hospitals and allows you to compare them to what's happening in your facility. The International Safety Center distributes EPINet free to hospitals to measure occupational exposures to blood and body fluid that cause illness and infection in the working population.
High-risk injuries from contaminated sharps and exposures, such as mucocutaneous splashes and splatters, pose an unparalleled risk to nurses. Infectious threats, such as Ebola virus, measles reemergence, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), require us to keep an ever-steady focus on surveying and measuring risk so we can mitigate and prevent it. EPINet allows us to do that.
