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Occupational Health Hazards among Faculty of Nursing Students in Zagazig University
Faculty
Nursing
Year:
2024
Type of Publication:
ZU Hosted
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Authors:
Salwa Abass Ali Hassaan
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Keywords :
Occupational Health Hazards among Faculty , Nursing
Abstract:
Background: Nursing education involves both theoretical and practical training processes. Clinical training is considered as an indispensable and highly significant component of professional nursing education and lies at the heart of nurses’ professional practice. Nursing students are exposed to various types of occupational incidents which are biological, chemical, physical, ergonomic and psychological. Aim: Investigate the occupational health hazards among faculty of nursing students in Zagazig University. Subjects and methods: A cross sectional descriptive design was used to conduct the present study, where a sample of 458 randomly selected nursing students was enrolled in the study. Tool: A self-administered questionnaire sheet was used to collect data, it included Part I: Socio-demographic characteristics. Part II: Developed by the researcher to identify types, risk factors of the occupational health hazards, protective measures and the related health problems. Results: The present study revealed that the highest common hazards the students exposed to were ergonomic (88.8%) and psychological hazards (88.4%), while the lowest was the biological hazards (10.48%). More than half of the students were fully aware of using personal protective equipment (PPE) and safety regulations; the commonly reported health problem was anxiety. Regarding musculoskeletal problems, lower back pain was the common moreover, second year students were the highly exposed to all types of hazards. Conclusion: Nursing students are exposed to occupational health hazards especially ergonomic and psychological. Being a student in the second year, female student, and from rural area increase this risk. Recommendations: Nursing students must be equipped with adequate knowledge and skills about occupational health hazards, safety measures and personal protective equipment especially before their first field practice. ــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ Keywords: occupational health hazards, nursing students, personal protective equipment.
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