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KMID : 0928320070070020123
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Korean Journal of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
2007 Volume.7 No. 2 p.123 ~ p.130
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Awareness of the Glass Particle Contamination and Efforts to Prevent the Contamination from Opening the Glass Ampoule among Nurses
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Song Ju-Yeoun
Jeong Ihn-Sook
Park Mi-Kyung
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Abstract
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Background : The purpose of this study was to investigate the characteristics of opening glass ampoule, awareness of glass particle contamination and harmfulness to human body from the opening of the glass ampoule, and efforts to prevent the contamination among nurses.
Methods :The study subjects were 395 nurses working at the six general hospitals in Busan. Data were collected during November 2005 with a self-administered questionnaire consisted of demographics, glass ampoules opening method and awareness of possibility and harmfulness to human body of the glass particle contamination, and efforts to prevent the contamination from the opening of the glass ampoule. Data were analyzed with frequency and percent to describe the demographics and characteristics of opening glass ampoules. And the relationship between demographics and characteristics of opening glass ampoules or awareness of the glass particle contamination and efforts to prevent the contamination from the opening of the glass ampoule were analyzed using χ² test using SPSS (ver 10.0).
Results :The most common way to open glass ampoule was by hand with out anthying (55.7%), and the reason selecting this method was because of fastness (61.0%). 90.4% of respondents have ever thought about glass particle contamination from opening glass ampoule, 95.5% of whom have thought glass particle contamination to be harmful to human body. However only 42.8% of respondents who have thought harmfulness of glass particle contamination have made efforts to prevent glass particle contamination. Nurses with above two and five year working experience and using stick or drill to open glass ampoule showed the least efforts to prevent glass particle contamination.
Conclusions :First of all, education on the severity of and way to prevent the glass particle contamination from opening of the glass ampoules should be provided to clinical nurses, and various administrative efforts should be considered to ease the efforts to prevent the glass particle contamination. (Korean J Health Promot Dis Prev 2007 ; 7(2):123~130)
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KEYWORD
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Glass, Particle Size, Contamination
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