Health workers at risk in terms of infectious diseases for any period of their professional life. Especially nurses when provide care to patients, needlestick-sharp instruments with injuries or splashing of body fluids of patients as result of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C such as important infections are common than other healthcare professionals. This study has been carried out to define the frequency of the professional needlestick- sharp injuries and the statusof hepatititis B immunization.
In our study, 67.2% of our research nurses' have experienced needlestick-sharps injuries at least once within the last three months. Majority of nurses had experienced needlestick-sharps injuries were wounded with injection syringe. Causing needlestick-sharps injuries to cutter of 24.6% in contact patient blood or fluids that have been reported. 70.6% of nurses had experienced needlestick-sharps injuries works external units. 78.1% of nurses had experienced needlestick-sharps injuries works at night shift and higher than day shift (P=0.001). Education level does not affect the status of needlestick- sharps injuries. Age, marital status, working the shift, the unit of work, hospital and work time were found to be significant differences between needlestick-sharp injuries (p
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