The Knowledge and Experience of Nursing Students about Occupational Health and Safety

Year 2019, Volume: 5 Issue: 3, 212 - 220, 31.12.2019

Hacer Gok Ugur , Ayten Kaya

https://doi.org/10.19127/mbsjohs.625203

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Objective:
This study was conducted to find out the knowledge and experience of student
nurses on occupational health and occupational safety

Methods:
This descriptive study was conducted on nursing students studying in the Health
Sciences Faculty of a University between 26 May and 16 June 2017. The universe
of the study consisted of all students studying in the department of nursing
(N=446), while the sample consisted of 332 student nurses determined according
to “Raosoft” sample size calculation program. The data were collected through
face to face interview technique with “Questionnaire Form” developed by the
researchers.

Results:
It was found that 76.5% of the student nurses in the study were trained about
occupational health and safety before they went out to practice areas and 85.5%
were vaccinated before they went out to clinical areas. 43.7% of the student
nurses stated that they had occupational accident, 31% of these stated that
they were injured with a sharp object and 67.6% stated that they did not report
the accident. A statistically significant association was found between student
nurses’ ages, their year of study and their state of experiencing occupational
accident (p<0.05).

Conclusion: It was found that almost half of the student nurses in the study
underwent occupational accident, most of the reasons for occupational accidents
was sharp object injury and most of the students who had occupational accident
did not report these.

Keywords

Student nurse, Occupation, Health, Safety, Accident

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