NEWS

INJECTION SAFETY WORKSHOP:-

NANNM in collaboration with John Snow incorporated/making medical injections safer (MMIS) have a plan of action based on training all cadres of health care personnel including the health care waste managers on infection prevention and control with particular attention to ensuring that necessary injection are given safely and the waste generated safely disposed off.

John Snow is an lnternational organization that is working in collaboration with the united state agency for international development (USAID) and Federal Ministries of Health and environment on infection prevention and control with emphasis on injection safety.

This train the trainers programme is on zonal basis  and kick started with the zone, of the Associa0tion on April 5-8^th 2006 at Jalingo hotels, Taraba state.  The over-all goal of the workshop is to remove transmission of blood-borne diseases through infection prevention and control in the context of injection safety.

To this end, the workshop was tailored to achieve the following objectives:-  To train the Nurses in:

-                     Infection prevention and control

-                     Health Care Waste management

-                     Interpersonal communication

The participants were drawn from various sections of Nursing viz the hospitals management board, Nursing directorate in the Ministry of Health, Hospitals, Schools of Nursing and Midwifery, Family Planning units, etc. of the various states within this zone with the aim of  cascading this training to the critical areas for the achievement of the over-all goal.

This programme, being train the trainers workshop adopted adult learning methods are featured paper discussions, group work and practical sessions on the following areas:-  Infection prevention and control and injection safety.

-                     Safe injection practices

-                     Injection  safety policies

-                     Behaviour change for safe injection practices

-                     Prevention and Management of Exposures

-                     Health care waste management

Finally, the last day was spent at the Federal Medical Centre, Jalingo for on-the-spot assessment of segregation of health care waste and its management.

The nurses were very appreciative of this programme and others in the remaining zones are still awaiting their turn.