Safe Handling Of Hazardous Drugs

Guidelines for the safe handling of hazardous wastes have existed for 20 years or more, but with nearly six million health care workers handling these wastes as of 2009, the importance of maintaining safety guidelines has never been greater. The second edition of Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs, edited by Martha Polovich, provides you with the details and procedures needed to keep safe in the workplace. Youll find information on issues such as drug administration, management of spills, and safety measures as well as details on the adverse effects of hazardous drugs, and evidence of occupational hazardous drugs exposure.

(Producer) This program demonstrates procedures for cytotoxic and hazardous drug preparation, administration, spill cleanup, and waste management, in order to help reduce risk.

Demonstrates recommended procedures for cytotoxic and hazardous drug preparation, administration, spill cleanup, and waste management. Fully compliant with new USP 797, NIOSH, and JCAHO standards.

With nearly six million health care workers handling hazardous drugs every year, and reports of contamination in the workplace rising since the early 1990s, the need for nurses to focus on safe handling education has become even more paramount. Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs, now available in a new, third edition, offers the guidelines and techniques nurses need to safely handle these materials. Updated with new tables, figures, and format which allows for a more thorough discussion of the content, Safe Handling of Hazardous Drugs helps to translate the recommended procedures into safe practice for nurses who administer hazardous drugs in the care of patients. The book features important information on drug administration and preparation, risks of occupational exposure, disposal of hazardous materials, management of spills, safety measures, and staff education and training.

"Provides explanation of elements of USP Hazardous Drugs' Handling in Healthcare Settings and best practices to comply with the requirements and recommendations of the USP General Chapter"--Pref.

The basic principles of early disease detection, practical considerations, including the application of screening procedures in a number of different disease conditions, and, finally, present techniques and possible developments in methodology. Screening for the chronic non-communicable diseases prevalent in the more advanced countries froms the main subject of the report, but the problems facing countries at other stages of development and with different standards and types of medical care are also discussed, and because of this communicable disease detection is also dealth with to some extent.