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American Nurses Association s. Needlestick Prevention Guide
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1 American Nurses Association s Needlestick Prevention Guide
2 American Nurses Association s Needlestick Prevention Guide Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from B-D, Inc. (Becton-Dickinson).
3 2002 American Nurses Association. All rights reserved. TDICT forms reprinted with permission.
4 Table of Contents Introduction... 1 Chapter One: The Information You Need... 3 One Nurse s Story... 3 Work-Related Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure: The Risks for Health Care Workers... 4 HIV/AIDS... 6 Hepatitis C... 8 Hepatitis B... 9 Procedure to Follow After a Needlestick or Sharps Injury Prevention Rights and Protections: OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard Chapter Two: Taking Action Needlestick Prevention Committee Identify and Document Needlestick and Sharps Hazards Using Contract Language Filing an OSHA Complaint Chapter Three: Device Evaluation, Selection, and Implementation Step One: Broad Identification of All Market-Available Devices Step Two: Three-Step Selection Process Step Three: Institutionalizing Selected Devices Step Four: Ongoing Surveillance for Efficacy and for Better Devices Conclusion Appendix A: Resources Appendix B: OSHA Model Exposure Control Plan Appendix C: EPINet Sharps Reporting Form Appendix D: TDICT Safety Feature Evaluation Forms Appendix E: TDICT Scenarios and Simulation Variables... 54
6 Introduction Every year, hundreds of thousands of health care workers are exposed to deadly diseases like HIV and hepatitis C through needlestick and sharps injuries. With today s technology, nurses no longer need to face such high risks. The American Nurses Association (ANA) is dedicated to working with nurses across the country to significantly reduce needlestick and sharps injuries. Nurses should not have to risk their lives every time they use a needle or sharps device. ANA, as part of its ongoing Safe Needles Save Lives campaign, has created this guide to help educate you and your colleagues about the risks of needlestick injuries and how to prevent them particularly through the evaluation, selection, and implementation of safe needle and sharps devices. Chapter One details the exposure risks from injuries especially from HIV, hepatitis C virus (HCV), and hepatitis B virus (HBV) and how these injuries can be prevented. It also outlines what steps you should take after an injury and your legal rights and protections especially under the federal 2000 Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act. Chapters Two and Three focus on how you and your colleagues can take specific steps toward needlestick prevention in your health care institution. These steps include creating a needlestick prevention committee, identifying and documenting injuries, evaluating, selecting, they use a needle or and implementing safe devices, filing a sharps device. complaint with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and using contract language. Nurses should not have to risk their lives every time In 1999, ANA and the Training for the Development of Innovative Control Technologies Project (TDICT) partnered to develop training based on the TDICT process for the evaluation, selection, and implementation of safe devices. Chapter Three outlines that process, developed from dozens of workshops held across the country and from material created during 10 years of research by TDICT, using the expertise of frontline health care workers, especially nurses. This book is dedicated to the hundreds of health care workers across the country who have fought for needlestick prevention especially to those nurses who themselves have been infected with serious diseases from needlestick and sharps injuries and to those who died from those diseases. ANA also owes a special thanks to Lynda Arnold, who started the inspirational, pioneering National Campaign for Health Care Worker Safety after she became infected with HIV from a needlestick injury. Together, we will continue the battle to protect health care workers, so that nurses can take care of patients without risking their own lives. 1
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8 Chapter One: The Information You Need ONE NURSE S STORY The Unthinkable Happens In 1997, Lisa Black, a 26-year-old nurse and single mom with two young daughters, was excited about her career. She had always wanted to be a nurse. One night, she was caring for a patient in the terminal stages of AIDS. She noticed that his intravenous (IV) tube was backed up with blood and the line was occluded. To quickly irrigate the line, she filled a syringe with saline and inserted the preattached needle into a rubber port on the patient s IV line. While Black was attempting to aspirate the coagulating blood and then flush the IV line, the patient became startled and jerked, causing the needle to dislodge from the rubber port of the IV line. The needle punctured the palm of her left hand. She was terrified. Black followed protocol and immediately scrubbed the wound, reported her injury, and went to the emergency department. She was started on a regimen of antiretroviral medications and a protease inhibitor. She put up with the difficult side effects, thinking that if she just could get If her hospital had exclusively used needleless IV systems, she never would have been injured and would not be taking over 20 pills a day to fight her diseases. through the side effects and stay on the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) protocol, she would not acquire HIV. Eight months later, she began to feel ill, and nine months and nine days after her injury, she was diagnosed with HIV. Several months later, she learned she also was infected with hepatitis C. Today, she is an active member of her state nurses association. She has devoted herself to educating others and fighting for occupational health and safety protections, so that other health care workers will not have to suffer her pain. A Tragedy That Should Never Have Happened Lisa s injury was 100% preventable. If her hospital had exclusively used needleless IV systems, she never would have been injured and would not be taking over 20 pills a day to fight her diseases. Lisa s story is just one of thousands. Today, thanks to the efforts of ANA, state nurses associations and other concerned health care workers, there is a federal law that mandates that health care facilities exclusively use safe needle devices. 3
9 The Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act was signed into law in November 2000 and became effective in April While it is too late for Lisa to be protected by this law, it is not too late for you. By working with your colleagues, your state nurses association, and the ANA, you have the power to bring dramatic change to your health care facility. You have the power to make sure that what happened to Lisa never happens to you or any of your colleagues. WORK-RELATED BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN EXPOSURE: THE RISKS FOR HEALTH CARE WORKERS Every day, health care workers are exposed to dangerous and deadly bloodborne pathogens through contaminated needlesticks, sharps, or splash exposures. It is one of the greatest risks faced by the frontline health care worker. Every percutaneous needlestick and sharps injury carries a risk of infection from bloodborne pathogens. Yet, these exposures often have been considered part of the job. Health care workers primarily are exposed to these pathogens via contaminated needlestick and sharps injuries. You probably know at least one colleague who has sustained an injury, or perhaps you have been stuck yourself. It is important that you and your colleagues fully understand these risks. The Facts About Occupational Infection: Every year, health care workers experience between 600,000 and 800,000 exposures to blood (United States Department of Labor-Occupational Safety and Health Administration [USDOL-OSHA], 2001). Registered nurses working at the bedside sustain an overwhelming majority of these injuries (Perry, Parker, & Jagger, 2003). These exposures carry the risk of infection with Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV), and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. Each of these viruses poses a different risk if a health care worker is exposed. More than 20 other infections can be transmitted through needlesticks, including syphilis, malaria, and herpes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 1998a). At least 1,000 health care workers are estimated to contract serious infections annually from needlestick and sharps injuries (International Health Care Worker Safety Center, 1999). According to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the design of the device can increase the risk of injury. Specific features make certain devices more dangerous. These include: (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health [NIOSH], 1999). 1 OSHA Compliance Directive, CPL Enforcement Procedures for the Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens. Office of Health Compliance Assistance. U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Washington, D.C. November 27, See EPINet data at 3 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1998a), Guidelines for Infection Control in Health Care Personnel, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 19, 6 (1998): International Health Care Worker Safety Center, Estimated Annual Number of U.S. Occupational Percutaneous Injuries and Mucocutaneous Exposures to Blood or Potentially At-Risk Biological Substances, Advances in Exposure Prevention 4, 1 (1998):3. 4
10 Devices with hollow bore needles. Needle devices that need to be taken apart or manipulated by the health care worker like blood drawing devices that need to be detached after use. Syringes that retain an exposed needle after use. Needles that are attached to tubing like butterflies that can be difficult to place in sharps disposal containers. The highest risk of injury is from blood filled hollow bore needles. They accounted for 63% of the needlestick injuries from June 1995 July 1999 (NIOSH, 1999). Ninety percent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) documented cases of health care workers who contracted HIV from needlestick injuries involved injuries with hollow bore, blood filled needles (CDC, 1998a). These data may appear to be old, dating back five or six years. It continues to have relevance when discussing the 2000 Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act since it was the science available at the time the law was debated, and ultimately, passed. These data proved to be very persuasive, and helped make the case for the law. Current data suggest that improvements in the design and distribution of equipment are making a positive impact on the incidence of needlesticks. Many references are provided that will direct the reader to data that is continuously updated and reflects current science. Some of the websites cited are continuously monitoring the epidemiology of these injuries and should be used in current discussions of the subject. Figure 1. Hollow-bore needles and other devices associated with percutaneous injuries in CDC surveillance hospitals, by % total percutaneous injuries (n=4,951), June 1995 July NIOSH Alert: Preventing Needlestick Injuries in Health Care Settings Publication No (1999). 6 Ibid. 7 CDC (1998b), U.S. HIV and AIDS Cases Reported Through December 1998, HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report 10, 2 (1998): NIOSH Alert. 5
11 Figure 2. Causes of percutaneous injuries with hollow-bore needles in CDC surveillance hospitals, by % total percutaneous injuries (n=3,057), June 1995 July HIV/AIDS 10 HIV Transmission From Infected Patients to Health Care Workers While the transmission rate of occupationally acquired HIV remains very low (.3%), 11 AIDS is a debilitating and ultimately fatal disease. Many nurses throughout the world are living with occupationally acquired AIDS, and many have died from it. Concerns about HIV-contaminated blood led to the 1991 OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard and CDC s Universal Precautions 12 (Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) is essential to reduce the risk of transmission and should be started within two hours of exposure see page 10). 13 The transmission rate of occupationally acquired HIV after an exposure is 0.3% (1 in 300). In other words, if a health care worker is stuck by a needle or cut by a sharp that is contaminated with the blood of an HIV patient, there is a 1 in 300 chance that she or he will be infected with HIV. 9 Ibid. 10 All data and information come from the CDC Web site on HIV, unless otherwise indicated. 11 CDC (1998b) CDC (2001), Updated U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines for the Management of Occupational Exposure to HBV, HCV, and HIV and Recommendations for Post-exposure Prophylaxis (June 29, 2001) 6
12 The risk of transmission can increase up to 5% (a 1 in 20 chance) if the needle or sharp is contaminated by an HIV-infected patient with a high viral load (usually either with a new infection or during the terminal stages of the disease), the health care worker sustains a deep cut with lots of blood, and the procedure involved accessing the patient s vein or artery. 14 As of June 2001, there were at least 57 CDC-documented cases of health care workers with occupationally acquired HIV and at least 137 cases of possible transmissions. 15 Based on the prevalence of HIV, 35 new cases of occupationally acquired HIV are estimated to occur annually. 16 Health care workers primarily have been infected with HIV after needlestick and sharps injuries or, rarely, after infected blood gets into a worker s open cut or a mucous membrane (for example, the eyes or inside the nose). The majority of infections have resulted from injuries from hollow-bore, blood-filled devices. Less frequently, workers have been infected via solid sharps (like suture needles or scalpels) and splash exposures. 17 The body fluids of most concern for HIV transmission are: blood, semen, vaginal fluid, breast milk, and other body fluids containing blood. Other body fluids that may transmit the virus include: cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain and the spinal cord, synovial fluid surrounding bone joints, and amniotic fluid surrounding a fetus. The Risk of Transmission of HIV From Infected Health Care Workers to Patients: There has been only one instance of patients being infected by a health care worker in the United States. Investigations have been completed involving more than 22,000 patients of 63 HIV-infected physicians, surgeons, and dentists, and no other cases of transmission have been identified in this country. There are no data to indicate that infected workers who do not perform invasive procedures pose a risk to patients. Thus, infected health care workers should modify their participation in invasive, exposure prone procedures, except in extreme emergency situations. 18 Infected workers should seek counsel from an expert panel to review and modify their practice based on the best available scientific information. The Disease: The CDC estimates that at the end of 1998, approximately 800, ,000 people were living with HIV and AIDS in the United States. 14 Cardo, D., et al., A Case-Control Study of HIV Seroconversion in Health Care Workers After Percutaneous Exposure, New England Journal of Medicine 337, 21 (1997): International Health Care Worker Safety Center, Estimated Annual Number of U.S. Occupational Percutaneous Injuries and Mucocutaneous Exposures to Blood or Potentially At-Risk Biological Substances, Advances in Exposure Prevention 4, 1 (1998): NIOSH Alert. 18 CDC (1998a). 7
13 There have been 448,060 reported deaths caused by AIDS. HIV destroys CD4+ T cells, which are crucial to the normal function of the human immune system. Loss of CD4+ T cells in people with HIV is also a predictor of the development of AIDS. Most people infected with HIV carry the virus for years before enough damage is done to the immune system for AIDS to develop. However, recently developed sensitive tests have shown a strong connection between the amount of HIV in the blood and the decline in CD4+ T cell numbers and the development of AIDS. Reducing the amount of virus in the body with anti- HIV drugs can slow this immune system destruction. In addition to occupational exposure, HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth. Treatment: There is no HIV vaccine. While aggressive vaccine research continues, it is still years and probably decades away. New medications, including antiretrovirals, can slow the development of HIV/AIDS. For the latest information on drug guidelines, contact the HIV/AIDS Treatment Information Service (ATIS) at PEP can greatly reduce the risk of transmission and should be started within 2 hours of exposure. 19 See page 10 for more PEP information. Hepatitis C 20 Lately, hepatitis C, caused by HCV, has become a great concern for nurses. Hepatitis C is a serious disease of the liver and can be fatal. HCV was not identified until 1989; before that it was referred to as non-a, non-b virus. The method to test for hepatitis C in blood products was not developed until 1992, meaning that people who received blood products before 1992 might have been exposed to HCV. Testing for hepatitis C after needlestick injuries was not recommended by the CDC until However, even after that, many health care workers were unaware of the need to be tested for hepatitis C. There could be thousands and thousands of nurses with occupationally acquired hepatitis C who simply do not know it. It is a silent epidemic. 19 CDC (2001). 20 All data and information can be found on the CDC hepatitis C Web site: 21 CDC (1998c), Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Infection and HCV-Related Chronic Disease, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 47 (1998): 21. 8
14 The Disease: Hepatitis C can lead to liver failure and liver cancer. It is the leading cause for liver transplants in the U.S. A liver transplant costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Hepatitis C is the most common chronic bloodborne infection. The CDC estimates that almost four million Americans are infected with HCV, whereas less than one million are infected with HIV. Eighty percent of people infected with HCV are asymptomatic, but symptoms can include jaundice, fatigue, dark urine, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, and nausea. Seventy percent of chronically infected persons develop chronic liver disease. Transmission: HCV is primarily spread by exposure to infected blood, primarily via IV drug use, occupational exposure like needlestick and sharps injuries, or having received a blood product prior to Transmission can also occur from an infected mother to her baby during birth. HCV also can be sexually transmitted, but this is rare. Hepatitis C is the most frequent infection resulting from needlestick and sharps injuries with a transmission rate of 2.7%-10%. 22 Treatment: There is no vaccine for hepatitis C. There is currently no approved PEP for HCV. Interferon monotherapy or combination therapy with ribavirin are the current treatments. Combination therapy is currently the preferred treatment and has been shown to be effective in 40% of infected persons. These drugs can cost thousands of dollars per month. Alcohol use can make the disease worse. Hepatitis B 23 Hepatitis B, caused by HBV is now preventable due to the vaccine that must be offered to all health care workers and is given to children at birth. After the 1991 Bloodborne Pathogens Standard required that the vaccine be offered, cases of hepatitis B in health care workers dropped from 17,000 annually to 400 annually and continue to drop. 24 ANA strongly recommends that all health care workers be vaccinated since it is the best means of prevention. 22 Ibid. 23 All data and information in this section can be found on the CDC hepatitis B page: 24 Mahoney, F., et al., Progress Toward Elimination of Hepatitis B Virus Transmission Among Health Care Workers in the United States, Archives of Internal Medicine 157 (1997):
15 The Disease: About 30% of infected people demonstrate no symptoms. Symptoms can include jaundice, fatigue, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, and joint pain. Death from liver disease can occur in 15-25% of chronically infected people. Transmission occurs via blood and body fluids and is spread via unprotected sex with an infected partner, IV drug use, and mother-child transmission. There are approximately 1.25 million chronically infected people in the U.S., 20-30% of whom acquired their infection during childhood. The highest rate of disease occurs among year-olds. Who is at risk? Health care and public safety workers People with multiple sex partners Men who have sex with men IV drug users Infants born to infected mothers Hemodialysis patients Treatment: Alpha interferon and lamivudine are used to treat chronic hepatitis B. They are effective in up to 40% of patients. These drugs should not be used in pregnant women. Alcohol use can make liver disease worse. PROCEDURE TO FOLLOW AFTER A NEEDLESTICK OR SHARPS INJURY Now that you know the risk of infection from needlestick and sharps injuries, what should you do if you sustain an injury? Under the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, employers must evaluate and treat health care workers in accordance with the latest post-exposure assessment, prophylaxis, and treatment guidelines published by the CDC. These guidelines and documents are available on the CDC s web site: 25 Before an exposure occurs, make sure your employer is able to provide: Immediate evaluation and risk assessment of needlestick injuries e.g., a hospital hotline. Confidential testing for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C. 25 CDC (2001). 10
16 Access to post-exposure treatment and prophylactic medications within two hours of exposure. Counseling, education, and follow-up testing for up to one year after exposure. If you sustain a needlestick injury, take the following actions immediately: Wash the wound with soap and water. Alert your supervisor and initiate the injury reporting system used in your workplace. Identify the source patient, who should be tested for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infections. Your workplace will begin the process to test the patient by seeking consent. Report to employee health services, the emergency department, or other designated treatment facility. Get tested immediately and confidentially for HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C infections. Get PEP in accordance with CDC guidelines when the source patient is unknown or tests positive for: HIV: Start prophylaxis within two hours of exposure. HIV PEP should include a four-week regimen of two drugs (zidovudine [ZDV] and lamivudine [3TC]; 3TC and stavudine [d4t]; or didanosine [ddi] and d4t) for most exposures and an expanded regimen that includes a third drug for HIV exposures that pose an increased risk for transmission. When the source patient s virus is known or suspected to be resistant to one or more of the PEP drugs, the selection of drugs to which the source patient s virus is unlikely to be resistant is recommended. Hepatitis B: If vaccinated no treatment, but if unvaccinated get HBIG and initiate HB vaccine series. Hepatitis C: No treatment is currently recommended, but you may want to consult a specialist about experimental PEP. Document the exposure in detail, for your own records as well as for the employer and for workers compensation. Under the new needlestick law, employers must maintain a confidential sharps injury log that contains, at a minimum, the type and brand of device involved in the incident, the department or work area where the exposure incident occurred, and an explanation of how the incident occurred. Follow-Up: Get confidential follow-up, post-exposure testing at six weeks, three months, and six months, and depending on the risk, at one year. Receive monitoring and follow-up of PEP. Take precautions (especially by practicing safe sex) to prevent exposing others until follow-up testing is complete. 11
17 Don t be afraid to seek additional information or a referral to an infectious disease specialist if you have any questions. Also, consider counseling a needlestick injury can be traumatic, regardless of the outcome. For more information, call the National Clinicians PEP Hotline at 1(888) PREVENTION While exposure to bloodborne pathogens is one of the most deadly hazards that nurses face on a daily basis, it is also one of the most preventable. Over 80% of needlestick injuries can be prevented with the use of safe needle devices, 26 which, in conjunction with worker education and work practice controls, can reduce injuries by over 90%. 27 The first safe needle designs were patented in the 1970s. In 1992, the FDA issued an alert to all health care facilities to use needleless IV systems wherever possible. 26 That alert was merely a recommendation, and it took another eight years for it to be required by law. Despite FDA approval of hundreds of safe devices, less than 15% of U.S. hospitals used safe needle Over 80% of needlestick injuries can be prevented with the use of safe needle devices, which, in conjunction with worker education and work practice controls, can reduce injuries by over 90%. devices and systems prior to the implementation of state and federal laws. 29 With the rapid development of technology and engineering controls, prevention is becoming easier and easier. By using safe devices, your institution will not only protect workers, but also save money. Safe needle devices can cost from cents to dollars more than standard devices, but prices continue to decrease with increased market competition and technology. Prevention is cost-effective. The cost of follow-up for a high-risk exposure is almost $3,000 per needlestick injury, even when no infection occurs. 30 According to the American Hospital Association, one case of serious infection by bloodborne pathogens can soon add up to $1 million or more in expenditures for testing, follow-up, lost time, and disability payments. 31 A liver transplant due to hepatitis C costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Other costs from needlestick and sharps injury include workers 26 CDC, Evaluation of Safety Devices for Preventing Percutaneous Injuries Among Healthcare Workers During Phlebotomy Procedures--Minneapolis-St. Paul, New York City, and San Francisco, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 46 (1997): Jagger J., Reducing Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens: Where do We Stand a Decade Later? Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology 17, 9 (1996): Food and Drug Administration, FDA Safety Alert: Needlestick and Other Risks From Hypodermic Needles on Secondary I.V. (Rockville, MD: Food and Drug Administration, 1992). 29 McCormick, R., Selecting Safety Products for Evaluation, in Pugliese, G., and Salahuddin, M., Sharps Injury Prevention Program: A Step-By-Step Guide (Chicago: American Hospital Association, 1999). 30 Jagger, J., et al., Direct Costs of Follow-up for Percutaneaous and Mucocutaneous Exposure to Body Fluids: Data from Two Hospitals, Advances in Exposure Prevention 3 (1998): Pugliese, G., and Salahuddin, M., Sharps Injury Prevention Program: A Step-By-Step Guide (Chicago: American Hospital Association, 1999). 12
18 compensation, overtime, and expenses related to recruitment and training of staff to replace a worker who becomes ill. There is solid evidence that devices with safety features significantly reduce needlestick injuries: 32 Needleless or protected-needle IV systems decreased needlestick injuries related to IV connectors by 62% to 88%. Phlebotomy injuries were reduced by 76% with a self-blunting needle, 66% with a hinged needle shield, and 23% with a sliding-shield, winged-steel (butterfly-type) needle. Phlebotomy injuries were reduced by 82% with a needle shield, but a recapping device had minimal impact. Safer IV catheters that encase the needle after use reduced needlestick injuries related to IV insertion by 83% in three hospitals. You can work with your health care facility to reduce preventable exposures by identifying the highest risk procedures and devices and implementing the most effective control measures. Methods to control hazards are usually discussed in terms of the hierarchy of controls. 33 The box below demonstrates how to apply the hierarchy of controls framework to bloodborne pathogen hazards. In addition to eliminating sharps, using safe needle devices is one of the best ways to prevent injuries. Chapter Three explains how you can work with your facility to evaluate, select, and implement safe devices. Hierarchy of Controls Most Effective Elimination of hazard remove sharps and needles and eliminate all unnecessary injections. Jet injectors may substitute for syringes and needles. Other examples include the elimination of unnecessary sharps like towel clips, and using needleless IV systems. Engineering controls examples include needles that retract, sheathe or blunt immediately after use. Administrative controls policies aimed to limit exposure to the hazard. Examples include allocation of resources demonstrating a commitment to health care worker safety, a needlestick prevention committee, an exposure control plan, removing all unsafe devices, and consistent training on the use of safe devices. Work practice controls examples include no re-capping, placing sharps containers at eye-level and at arms reach, emptying sharps containers before they re full, and establishing the means for safe handling and disposing of sharps devices before beginning a procedure. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) barriers and filters between the worker and the hazard. Examples include eye goggles, gloves, masks, and gowns. Least Effective 32 NIOSH Alert. 33 For more information see Gochnour, M., et al., ANA Workplace Health and Safety Guide for Nurses: OSHA and NIOSH Resources (Washington, D.C.: American Nurses Association, 2001). 13
19 RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS: OSHA BLOODBORNE PATHOGENS STANDARD 34 After years of lobbying efforts by ANA and others, there are significant laws and regulations that provide nurses with rights and protections. In addition to the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act, you are protected by OSHA s 1991 Bloodborne Pathogens (BBP) Standard. Despite this standard, needlestick injuries continued to occur at frightening levels. Thus, ANA launched a campaign for federal legislation to provide more protection. ANA s Safe Needles Save Lives campaign ultimately secured passage of the 2000 Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act. This federal law amended the 1991 BBP Standard to provide stronger protections including additions to the exposure control plan, detailed recording of needlestick injuries, involvement of frontline health care workers in the selection of safety devices, and more details and instruction on engineering controls and safer devices that must be used to prevent exposure. The OSH Act covers all employees working in the private sector (for-profit and not-for-profit institutions) and in states with OSHA-approved occupational health and safety plans. The law applies to state, county and municipal workers. Federal employees receive the same protections under a separate law. As the law amends the BBP Standard, workers who are not covered by OSHA remain unprotected. However, ANA is vigorously lobbying for additional legislation to protect all public workers, including those in states without OSHA-approved occupational health and safety plans. The OSHA BBP Standard, including the amendments from the federal Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act, requires health care facilities to do the following in these five areas: Engineering Controls Use safer medical devices, such as sharps with engineered sharps injury protections and needleless systems, and other engineering controls. These devices have built-in safety features that reduce the risk of injury and can include syringes with a sliding sheath, needles that retract into the syringe after use, shielded or retracting catheters, and IV systems that use a catheter port with a needle housed in protective covering. Needleless systems include IVs that administer medication and fluids through a catheter port using nonneedle connections and jet-injection systems that deliver liquid medication beneath the skin or through a muscle. Make safer needles and other sharps with integrated safety features available in syringes, blood collection devices, IV access products, lancets, and blunt suture needles. Use puncture-proof containers to dispose of sharps and needles. Containers must be closed, puncture resistant, leak proof, color coded, and emptied routinely to prevent overfilling. 34 These protections are based on the 2000 Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act which amended the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. For more information on rights and protections, visit OSHA s Web site: 14
20 Frontline Health Care Worker Involvement and Training Requirements Include the involvement of frontline health care workers (non-managerial employees responsible for direct patient care) in device evaluation and selection, with evidence of this participation documented in the exposure control plan. Provide frontline health care workers with interactive training on the use of safer devices, work practices, and PPE from a knowledgeable person. Workers must receive training when hired and at least once a year. Training must be provided during working hours and at no cost to employees. Training records must be maintained for three years. Exposure Control Plan Have a written exposure control plan (ECP) and make a hard copy of the ECP available to employees or their representatives within 15 working days of a request. (See Appendix B for OSHA s model ECP.) Review and update the ECP annually or more frequently whenever new or modified procedures are adopted or whenever employee positions are revised in such a way that creates new potential exposures. This review must include an examination of the most recent technological advances. Inform workers of the location of the ECP and the procedures to follow if an exposure occurs. Other Control Measures: Administrative, Work Practice, and Personal Protective Equipment Provide access, within two hours, to post-exposure follow-up that conforms to CDC guidelines for testing and prophylaxis. Make the hepatitis B vaccine available at no cost to employees. Make purchasing decisions based on the proven safety and efficacy of the product. Prohibit work practices of bending, re-capping, or removing needles unless required by a specific medical or dental procedure. Clean and decontaminate all work surfaces after contact with blood and other infectious body fluids following CDC guidelines. 35 Provide PPE including gloves, gowns, goggles, masks or face shields. These devices must be in sizes that fit all workers, of good quality and readily available. Non-latex alternatives must be provided. Recordkeeping Maintain a sharps injury log updated regularly with the details of all needlestick injuries, including date, place, situation, and device brand and type. 35 CDC (1998a). 15
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With Puerto Rico being the latest in an ever growing list of countries defaulting on their debt, investors need to pay special attention to the latest credit ratings countries are getting. Moody's has rated seven countries several tiers lower than Ba1, with three getting two of the worst ratings possible: Caa3 and Ca.
Hit very hard by falling oil prices, Venezuela has been constantly downgraded by all three major credit rating agencies since 2014. Considering that over 94 percent of Venezuela's export market is oil, the drop in the price of a barrel of crude oil, from over $90 down to barely over $50 in a few months has significantly increased the country's risk of a default.
With its current government debt at 39.6% of GDP, Moody's is currently predicting that Venezuela's balance of trade will go from a 2% surplus to a 2% deficit by the end of this year.
Probably the most talked about country after China, Greece's 2015 government debt is 172.7%, with per capita debt of $26,773.
Greece already defaulted on $138 billion of its debt in 2012, making that largest sovereign default that was ever recorded. Debt restructuring and a return to the international bond market which followed the default gave a glimmer of hope for some kind of economic recovery, but that hope was soon dashed.
The severe austerity measures which accompanied the previous debt restructuring only exacerbated an already difficult financial situation, and with the latest measures imposed this year, it probably only be a matter of time before it is on the ledge again.
Ukraine's banking system has not looked pretty since 2009, but it reached a new low when it was downgraded from Caa3 to Ca this year. The new rating almost makes it below junk level, and reflects the extreme banking restrictions, highly likelihood of asset erosion, and very volatile funding options.
Ukraine's main issue, which is exacerbating the country's financial problems, remains its conflict with Russia over the Crimea. With debt at 94.1 percent of GDP, the IMF gave a green light to a restructuring package in March. However, its credit rating is still falling, and as Moody states, "the likelihood of a distressed exchange, and hence a default on government debt taking place, is virtually 100%."


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Couleur, forme et texture conforme à la description. Article reçu dans les délais. Mon coup de coeur Etsy ! Je trouve ce sac sobre et élégant. Et en recevant mon colis j'ai trouvé l'emballage adorable ! Petit bémol : les cahiers 24x32 ne rentrent pas dedans. Donc tant pis pr mon carnet de notes et mon ordi, ce qui est regretable.
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An error was encountered while setting up device /dev/sda:
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similar or same bug in F11: bug #491754. However I don't get any traceback - just the error message.
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Yes, the Tigers did sneak in 6-foot-3 Corban Collins for the 2012-13 campaign, but he parted ways with the program after just one season as a backup. The purple-and-gold mainstays at the point in the last three seasons: Anthony Hickey (5-foot-11) and Andre Stringer (5-foot-10).
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An alumni of the Atlanta Celtics AAU program, Quarterman is also pleased to have former UCLA assistant Korey McCray added to the LSU staff. For the newest Tiger guard, there are a lot of fond memories of the program McCray headed prior to his tenure in Westwood.
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Quarterman then tabbed two former Atlanta Celtics now at UCLA as the primary players he looked up to within the AAU program.
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In a moment of levity, Quarterman acknowledged that McCray did recruit him pretty heavily to UCLA. "Yes, but I never really considered it. It was too far. I knew my mom wasn't ever going to let it happen. So I was like, 'Hey, I can't do anything about it.'"
And so now Quarterman begins his journey at LSU, reunited with a coach he thought he'd never play for and playing a position other places told him he couldn't. Maybe that's why Quarterman smiled from ear-to-ear throughout his debut press conference on Tuesday.
"It's a great opportunity," Quarterman said of why he ultimately chose LSU. "I knew that if I came in and worked hard, I could make a difference."
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