Abstract
Objective To understand the general knowledge of nursing students' recognition of and compliance with medical waste classification so as to provide basis which schools and teaching hospitals should be adopted to better implement teaching and management of hospital infection. Methods We investigated 81 nursing students by using a self-designed questionnaire which aimed to acquire nursing students' recognition of and compliance with medical waste classification. Results 85.2% nursing students could not correctly judge that the wasted sphygmomanometers were chemical waste and 77. 8% had a wrong concept towards the pathological waste. There was no statistical difference among nursing students with different educational backgrounds (χ2 =0.96,P＞0. 05). 75.3% thought that medical waste classification was very important and 74.1% had a poor compliance with medical waste classification. Conclusions Nursing students' recognition of and compliance with medical waste classification needs further improvement. Schools should establish hospital infection education;teaching hospitals should strengthen comprehensive education of hospital infection;teaching teachers shall set good examples as well as make a good supervision. Key words: Nursing students; Medical waste; Recognition; Compliance
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