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RISK OF IMPROPER WASTE MANEGEMENT AND INFECTIONS AMONG HEALTH WORKERS
of improper waste
management, one must
understand what is medical
waste. There are four types
of medical wastes which
includes general, infectious
hazardous and radioactive
wastes. In various
healthcare sectors it has
been observed that waste
management is not being
done properly. This
condition has been found to
be associated with
Australian healthcare
services. Infectious risk has
been found to be associated
with solid waste disposition
in the body of healthcare
workers (Bari et al., 2019).
For example, it can be
stated that the risk of
infection increases as one
gets cut from the clinical
sharp wastes. Infection
associated with pre existing
wounds are also synergized
with the new cuts and
punctures from solid
wastes. Radioactive wastes
have been found to
decrease the lifespan of the
Australian health workers by
their radioactive effects
(Playford et al., 2016). Toxic
exposure to pharmaceutical
products such as cytotoxic
healthcare workers in ICU.
RQ2: What is the associated with risk of
infection with RQ1.
RQ3: What is the impact of combined
risk of improper waste management and
infections.
Literature review
Infections associated with
hospitals are known as hospital
associated infections or (HAI).
Since healthcare workers are
always connected to the
constant use of harmful
radioactive wastes and
radioactive products, they are
directly associated with the risk
of infections. According to
various pieces of literature, it
can be stated that the risk of cut
and puncture infections
associated with surgical
intensive care units have been
found to be higher in the
Australian healthcare services
(Van der Geest et al., 2017).
Various organic wastes such as
blood and blood products, on
being improperly managed,
becomes a risk of communicable
infection transfer to the health
workers (Maves, Jamros & Smith,
2019). Nosocomial pneumonia
has been found to be the second
most common communicable
infection which is transferred to
the healthcare workers in the
Australian ICUs. Genotoxic
wastes falls under the category
of radioactive wastes which
leads to the occurrence of
mutations in DNA cause severe
hereditary disorders. These toxic
Various research studies have
discussed the fact that control
of healthcare associated
wastes should be done
properly in order to reduce
the levels of infections among
the healthcare workers. The
next section will discuss the
contribution of this
association with theory.
Contribution to theory
This section will discuss the
contributions of the literature
review towards various
guidelines to followed for
controlling the risk of infections.
The association between
improper waste management
and risk of infections associated
with the workers of healthcare
unit in the ICU of Australia has
been found to be strong. This
factor has been studied by
various research studies and the
association has been found to be
strong (Cesaro & Belgiorno,
2017). This factor has been
discussed in various theories
which provides guidelines for the
healthcare workers across
different healthcare sectors in
Contribution to practical
Contributions to practical has been
found to be help the healthcare
workers in taking actions to control
major causes of hospital associated
infections. This cause has been found
to reduce the improper management
of hospital wastes. Thus, various
papers have discussed the fact that
many workers in ICUs have controlled
the infections by properly managing
the hospital wastes.
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