Needlestick injuries
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Craig Hopkins Staff nurse, Hull City Health Care Partnership’s anticoagulation team

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As a staff nurse working in a community anticoagulation team, my role involves obtaining capillary blood samples as part of a near-patient testing programme.

Nursing Standard. 27, 3, 59-59. doi: 10.7748/ns2012.09.27.3.59.c9301

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