Pregledni rad
https://doi.org/10.31306/s.63.1.5
Nurses at risk of injuries - critical points
Valentina Jezl
orcid.org/0000-0002-7588-4571
; Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Danijela Grgurević
; Klinički bolnički centar Zagreb, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ksenija Vitale
; Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, ŠNZ "A. Štampar",Zagreb, Hrvatska
Sažetak
The health sector has undergone numerous changes in recent decades that have led to a number of new threats to the health of nurses, as well as new challenges that the field of occupational safety and health needs to overcome. Nursing is the largest of the healthcare professions that is, due to the nature of work, exposed to a large number of potentially dangerous situations and substances. Nursing is characterized by a high sense of personal satisfaction and achievement, but a dynamic work environment witch involving different employee profiles and highly specialized technology, can led to significant health risk, while healthcare sector need healthy nurses to provide quality care to patients.
This paper will outline the most important critical points of nursing injury risk, which include various stressors associated with direct patient care such as ergonomic, biological, chemical, physical and psychosocial risks. For this review and analysis, we did a comprehensive literature search in Croatia, Europe and the world by searching the PubMed, Google Scholar, Elseviar, UpToDate and other keyword-based databases from 2000 to 2019.
The literature review shows that the occupational safety and health of nurses is very complex and requires in-depth analysis and identification of risks and persons at risk, risk evaluation and prioritization, planning of preventive actions, implementation of actions, and documentation, monitoring and verification of results.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
255549
URI
Datum izdavanja:
12.4.2021.
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