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Hospital Waste Management System

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Last updated: 26 Dec 2024

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The term of health-care waste includes the waste generated within health-care facilities, research centers and laboratories related to medical procedures. Medical waste poses an important global challenge because of potential hazards to the environment and public health. The lack of awareness of proper health care waste management HCWM, disposal and treatment procedures by healthcare providers has resulted in “hospitals becoming epicenters of spreading disease rather than working toward eradicating them. Purpose of this study was to clarify hospital waste management system .Conclusion: There is hospital waste management policy adapted from the National Infection Control Guidelines this policy has been distributed to all hospitals, but it is not applied in a correct way by health care personnel Policies adapted from the National Infection Control Index national guidelines of infection.

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10.21608/menj.2020.122681

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Nurses Awareness, waste management

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Amna

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Elsayed

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A.

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B.Sc. Nursing Science, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

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Manal

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Ibrahem

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M.

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Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

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Gehan

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Diab

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M.

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Assistant Professor of Nursing Administration, Faculty of Nursing, Menoufia University, Egypt.

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5

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1

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18361

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2020-05-01

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2020-05-11

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2020-05-01

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19

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26

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2735-3974

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2735-3982

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Menoufia Nursing Journal

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Hospital Waste Management System

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23 Jan 2023