Needlestick injuries
Craig Hopkins Staff nurse, Hull City Health Care Partnership’s anticoagulation team
Craig Hopkins has a better understanding of how to handle sharps safely after reading a learning zone article
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.
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