NAPPSI Initiatives

NAPPSI has launched a major new campaign for a Clinician Advisory, to alert clinicians to the benefits of primary prevention of sharps injuries. The campaign focuses on petitioning U.S. health agencies to highlight the distinct benefits of primary and secondary prevention of sharps injuries.

The Clinician Advisory States:

Healthcare workers who use or may be exposed to needles are at increased risk of needlestick injury. Such injuries can lead to serious or fatal infections with bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

In order to prevent bloodborne pathogens exposure, clinicians are advised to utilize both Primary and Secondary sharps injury prevention techniques.

Primary prevention techniques eliminate the needs to introduce sharps into the workplace, thereby reducing the total number of sharps used.

Secondary prevention techniques render safer those sharps that must be introduced into the workplace.

The combination of Primary and Secondary Prevention maximizes healthcare worker safety with respect to blood-borne pathogens exposure from sharps injury.

Eliminating Suture Needlesticks | Needlestick Safety Program | NAPPSI Letter To OSHA |
NAPPSI Letter To AHA

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