Objective To examine the incidence of needlestick injuries and job satisfaction among medical staff so as to explore effective prevention and intervention measures.
Conclusion By random sampling, 432 medical staff members were surveyed with questionnaires on general information, needlestick injury, and job satisfaction.
Results There were totally 207 medical staff members who were injured by needlestick over the past year, including 108 physicians and 99 nurses. The needlestick injuries mostly arranged from 2 to 5 times per person and occurred more often in the male physicians (49.1%) than in the female physicians (33.3%) (P< 0.05). There were significant differences in the incidence of needlestick injuries between the physicians and the nurses (P< 0.05). Significant differences were also seen in the job satisfaction among the physicians stratified by length of service and in the colleague communication satisfaction among the physicians specified by job title (P< 0.05). The nurses presented low satisfaction levels of colleague communication and job. The results of logistic regression analysis showed that job title, length of service, salary satisfaction, and job satisfaction were the main risk factors of needlestick injuries (P< 0.05).
Conclusion The occurrence of needlestick injuries is related with job satisfaction among medical staff.
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