Survey on current status and influencing factors of occupational hazards among nursing staff in general hospitals
10.11816/cn.ni.2025-250113
- VernacularTitle:综合医院护理人员职业危害现状及影响因素调查
- Author:
Lingling ZHU
1
;
Xiaofei XU
;
Jinfen SHI
;
Xian XIA
;
Hongju XIAO
Author Information
1. 解放军总医院第七医学中心门诊部,北京 100700
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Nursing staff;
Occupational hazard;
Occupational exposure;
Occupational protection system;
Ques-tionnaire survey
- From:
Chinese Journal of Nosocomiology
2025;35(14):2204-2208
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of occupational hazards among nursing staff in general hospitals,explore the influencing factors and analyze the prevalence of occupational exposure among the nursing staff.METHODS A survey was conducted for the nursing staff who were selected from 8 general hospitals in Bei-jing through convenience sampling method,and the data regarding the occupational exposure among the nursing staff from 2023 to 2024 were summarized and analyzed.Statistical analyses were performed for the survey data by SPSS 23.0 software.RESULTS Among 963 nursing staff included in the survey,the average index of total occupa-tional risk was 311.55;19 of 28 items of occupational hazard risks were intolerable risks.There were no significant differences in the risk indexes among the nursing staff with different education backgrounds and working years;there were significant differences in the hazard risk indexes of body mechanics,psychological society and organiza-tional factors among the nursing staff with different titles(P＜0.05).There were significant differences in acci-dent hazard,physical hazard,body mechanics,psychological society,organizational hazard and biological hazard among the different departments of nursing staff(P＜0.05).There were totally 184 case-times of occupational ex-posures that were actively reported by nursing staff in 2023 and 2024.CONCLUSIONS The status of occupational exposure among the nursing staff in the general hospitals remains concerning.The structure of occupational haz-ards has shifted from predominantly physical risks to psychosocial risks.The perceptions of occupational risks vary significantly among the nursing staff with different titles,the occupational risk vary among the departments,and a cognitive-behavioral dissociation in occupational protection practices persists to some extent among the nursing personnel.Healthcare institutions must continuously strengthen occupational protection system through multidi-mensional approaches to address these evolving challenges.
