Nurse's Role and Responsibility in Biomedical Waste Management
1. Disinfect the waste
2. Reduce the waste
3. Reduce requirement for storage and transportation
4. Waste minimization
5. Monitor segregation of waste
6. Disposable item disposed off, prevent illagal packing and reuse.
7. Recycling of infectious plastic waste only after disinfectant/sterilization
8. Sharp instrument placed in puncture proof container
9. Transport sharps for treatment
10. Use of chemical disinfectant
11. Record of biomedical waste
12. Mistakes in segregation corrected by nursing staff
13. Surveillance Nosocomial infection due to Biomedical waste
14. Clean, air using hygienic method of dusting
15. Handle with care needle, prevent from injury
16. Color coding as per Rules
17. Educate about biomedical waste
Functions of Hospital waste management committee
1. To ensure biomedical waste rules and regulation
2. To ensure guidelines for implementation biomedical waste policy in clinical department
3. Conduct awareness programme
4. Conduct training programmes for medical and nursing professional and sanitation professionals
5. Detailed plan of actions, segregation, collection, storage, and transport of waste
6. Supervision laboratory and monitoring services, blood bank, microbiology, pathology
7. To supervision Operation theatre
Importance of biomedical waste management
1. Increases safety to employees
2. Reduce sharp injury
3. Reduce risk of blood- borne pathogens
4. Safe and hygienic environment
5. Prevent spread of infection
6. Reduce hospital acquired infection
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