Nursing Activity is High Risk Profession

Nurses is a front line profession who closely with the patients 24 hours. Nurses in the Health Care Provider who work in Hospitals, clinics or other are front line profession who have to help patients that facing health problem. Nursing daily activities in workplace such as bedridden, giving injection, inserting IV, helping patient for personal hygiene, Patient lifting, travel patients from bed to the wheelchair or from bed to bed, accompany patients doing X-ray all are activities with so many risk.

The risk of nursing activities including getting cross infection from the patients, muscular disorder diseases, LBP (low back pain), getting risk from radiation exposure, needle pricking and so on. Low of nurses safety behavior and also no safety supervisor result in most of Nurses getting accident in the workplace in the period of work time.

To reduce to the nursing injury and accident need participate from Safety Department and Hospital Manager in order to make safety procedure and always supervisor control to daily nurses activity to avoid injury or accident happen.

Here state of safety procedure when nurses doing daily activities:

• Alway using Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) such as mask, glove, google, safety coat when do high risk activities like inserting IV, drawing blood sample, carried out specimen.
  
• Read to the safety procedure before taking action to patients.
  
• Use any device tool when travel patient from bed to wheelchair, bed to bed with strecher or other device tool to avoid injury or other accident.
  
• Do not ignore safety procedure if you don't want getting accident.
  
• Be carefully and keep your self always safe.

Be Safety First, safe your self.