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Archive > December, 2006 Vol. VII, No. 12

The Stop Sticks Campaign Wants You

If you're serious about reducing sharps injuries, you'll have to win over the hearts and minds of your surgeons and staff.

Raymond C. Sinclair, PhD, Amanda G. Harney, MPH, and Alice Weiss, BS, RN

One memo, one meeting or one poster won't reduce sharps injuries. Neither will one hundred. Policies and rules aren't enough. What it takes is a campaign, a concerted and concentrated delivery of safety information over a series of weeks, to get surgeons and staff to change their behavior. We conducted a sharps injury prevention project called the "Stop Sticks Campaign" in several hospital surgical services departments, an emergency department and a nursing care center in Columbia, S.C. Our sharps safety campaigns covered units in different facilities and different organizations over the course of a four-year period. The premise of the project was that communication issues need just as much attention as policy, supply and procedure issues. In this article, we'll walk you through the seven steps you can follow to conduct a sharps safety campaign in your own facility.

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