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Sharps Injuries and Blood-Borne Viruses

1. Why dentistry is a sharps workplace

2. Devices, trays and the bin that is actually used

3. The first hour: first aid, report, occupational health

Sharps Injuries and Blood-Borne Viruses – Assessment

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Sharps Injuries and Blood-Borne Viruses – Assessment

Sharps Injuries and Blood-Borne Viruses
Sharps Injuries and Blood-Borne Viruses – Assessment

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Question 1 of 8

1. Question

UK healthcare sharps duties require employers to:

Accept injuries as part of dentistry
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Assess and reduce risk, including safer devices where reasonably practicable, plus training
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Ban all needles
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Leave it to each nurse’s common sense only
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Question 2 of 8

2. Question

Hepatitis B vaccination:

Makes recapping safe
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Reduces hepatitis B risk but does not cover HCV or HIV, and does not replace safer practice
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Is optional theatre
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Replaces occupational health after an injury
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Question 3 of 8

3. Question

Two-handed recapping is:

Best practice
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A well-known injury method and should not be the culture
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Required by GDC
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Fine if you are experienced
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Question 4 of 8

4. Question

Sharps bins should be:

Filled above the line and pressed down by hand
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At the point of use, closed correctly, never overfilled
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Emptied into a black sack
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Stored in reception as a talking point
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Question 5 of 8

5. Question

Immediately after a needlestick you should:

Suck the wound and finish the patient first
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First aid, then report at once through the practice occupational-health pathway
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Post the patient’s blood-borne virus status on WhatsApp
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Take a colleague’s blood in the kitchen
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Question 6 of 8

6. Question

Post-exposure prophylaxis decisions belong with:

Whoever is loudest in the staff room
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Occupational health or the designated urgent clinical pathway
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Google
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The patient’s sister
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Question 7 of 8

7. Question

Testing a source patient requires:

No consent if staff are scared
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A lawful process with consent, not coercion
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A Facebook poll
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A receptionist’s guess
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Question 8 of 8

8. Question

This PrismCPD course is:

1 hour, standalone knowledge CPD, not a personal PEP protocol
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A replacement for occupational health
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Module 5 of IR(ME)R
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Only for dentists
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