الفهرس 
Prevalence of needle sticks injuries
Exposure Control Plan (ECP).Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Occupational exposure to blood born pathogens from needle sticks injuries (NSIs), is a serious problem, but it is often preventable. In USA. The CDC estimates that each year 385.000 needle sticks and other sharps- related injuries are sustained by hospital – based health care personnel. Sharp injuries are primarily associated with occupational transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but they may be implicated in the transmission of more than 20 other pathogens. The risk of infection from a contaminated needle stick is dependents up on the pathogen involved, the severity of the injury, and the availability and use of appropriate prophylactic treatment. This highlights the necessity for application of occupational safety strategies for controlling and management of needles stick injuries such as that implemented in this study in order to provide occupational safety in the health care setting work environment, this strategy focused on engineering control measures, training of health care workers, exposure control plan, administrative and work practice control measures and record keeping, reporting of NSI. Aim of the study: to identify the effect of application of occupational safety strategies for controlling and management of needle stick injuries on nurses. Materials and Methods: Study design: Aquazi experimental study design was used in this study. Setting and sample: this study was carried out in student university hospital affiliated to Tanta University Hospitals. All nurses who were in direct contact with the patients, have no training course on infection control were involved in this study (240 nurses). They were divided into study and control groups each group contain 140 nurses.