The Australian Nursing Federation (ANF) is extremely concerned with serious risks posed to nurses from needle stick injury in the country. More than 18,000 nurses report being pricked by contaminated ...

According to the Australian Nurses Federation (ANF) there are more than 18,000 reports of accidental needle stick injuries to nurses caused by syringes or other sharp items in Australia each year.

A study of newly-qualified nurses in the US has found they are at greater risk of suffering injuries if they work longer shifts, more overtime and at night. The study, by researchers from the New York ...

The needlestick injury happened when the nurse was recapping a used needle The nurse got the monkeypox vaccine within hours of the incident Testing of the lesion on the puncture site turned out ...

Nurses, physicians and other healthcare professionals suffer around 800,000 needlestick injuries in U.S. hospitals every year, according to the National Center for Biotechnology Information and a FOX ...

The U.S. Senate unanimously approved new workplace regulations yesterday that will dramatically lower the number of potentially lethal needle sticks that injure hundreds of thousands of health care ...

LITTLE ROCK — There is no typical day for Brenda Pollard Davidson. As the nurse for the Cedar Ridge School District, she said she just reacts to what comes her way. It could be an accident or an ...

ANA released these findings from the 2008 Study of Nurses’ Views on Workplace Safety and Needlestick Injuries, an independent nationwide survey of more than 700 nurses. “An overwhelming majority of ...

A Florida hospital nurse was exposed to monkeypox through a needlestick in July, representing the nation’s first confirmed case from a healthcare exposure, the CDC said Oct. 17. The emergency ...

A study of newly-qualified nurses in the US has found they are at greater risk of suffering injuries if they work longer shifts, more overtime and at night. The study, by researchers from the New York ...