This research work investigated workplace violence among nurses in public and private healthcare facilities in Port Harcourt. The study sample comprised of 228 nurses and the method of sampling was purposive sampling. A structured questionnaire developed by the International Labo...
Background: Standard precautions (SPs) in the hospital are very important in the reduction of health care workers’ exposure to occupational health hazards but most hospitals are used to reactive rather than proactive safety practices. The effect of reactive safety practices is ov...
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Research Article10.9734/ajmah/2020/v18i230181
The hospital is a high risk environment for the transmission of infections to health care workers, visitors, patients and the surrounding community. Healthcare workers are exposed to a variety of hazards which predisposes these “indispensable carers” to various life threatening i...
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Research Article10.9734/jsrr/2019/v25i230186
Healthcare workers are exposed to a variety of hazards which predisposes these “indispensable carers” to various life threatening infections and diseases. This study is aimed at analyzing and assessing HCWs towards Occupational hygiene and Infection control practices in Federal M...