Is Your Hospital’s Staff Properly Trained? Methods of Preventing Patient Infection

Experienced health care professionals often become very familiar with their patients’ needs, but many remain unaware of the risks involved with the improper disposal of medical waste. While a medical waste disposal company may take care of large-scale hazard removal for a medical facility, employees are still tasked with medical waste removal on a daily basis. Proper procedures must be followed to dispose of hazardous pharmaceutical waste: medications should not be allowed to interact with the water supply and must be disposed of in a secure fashion. “Sharps waste,” or needles used to draw blood or to inject patients with …

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