NSI: Knowledge & Practice among Healthcare Workers

A descriptive survey was done to assess knowledge & practice regarding NSI, & to find out the corelation between knowledge & practice among 100 health care workers like nurses, lab technicians of Private Hospitals, Pokhara, Nepal through purposive sampling. Self- administered questionnaire as demographic proforma, knowledge, and practice questionnaire were used. Majority of health care workers were females (93%) with mean age of 22.66 years (±3.1). Forty two percent had wrong concept about the meaning of NSI. There were only 35% of workers who dispose the sharps in cardboard box where as 65% used wrong place. Only 22% had a proper practice of disposal of sharp box when it is 3/4th full. While finding a used needle on the floor after closing the box with sharp only 38% use a new box which is the correct means. Seventy nine percent of workers expressed that, they never received any training in the prevention &/or treatment of NSI. There was a positive correlation between knowledge & practice scores (p= 0.004).