Bharti Rana
Meenakshi Pathania
- Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, Bee Enn College of Nursing, Chak Bhalwal, Jammu & Kashmir, India
- Nursing Tutor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Bee Enn College of Nursing, Chak Bhalwal, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Abstract
The waste generated from health actions can be dangerous, poisonous, toxic and even mortal because of their high probable for ailment transmission and injury that also outcome in environmental disturbances. The first step to safe disposal of dangerous hospital wastes. an acceptable and proper knowledge of Bio Medical Waste Management among the students of Nursing is important. Appropriate managing of health care waste is then a vital part of environmental health protection, and it should be considered out to be an integral step of health care services. Aim: To assess the knowledge regarding bio- medical waste procedure among b.sc nursing scholars. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study, was administered. The study was conducted in netaji Subhash college of nursing, h.p. The purposes of this study were to find the extent of knowledge regarding BMW procedure among the nursing scholars, The sampling technique non-probability was used and a semi-structured questionnaire to check the knowledge regarding Bio-medical waste management was administered. SPSS interpretation 20 was used for analysis. Conclusion: The study report shows that among 100 nursing scholars, the nearly (71.67%) 71.67% repliers was having good knowledge, among 23.33% of nursing scholars was having poor level of knowledge and among 5% nursing repliers was having fair level of knowledge regarding BMW procedure.
Keywords: Nursing Scholars , Knowledge and Biomedical Waste procedure, health care waste, disposal, environmental disturbances
[This article belongs to International Journal of Biomedical Innovations and Engineering(ijbie)]
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| Volume | 01 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Received | July 13, 2023 |
| Accepted | July 30, 2023 |
| Published | August 10, 2023 |