Sharps Injuries
Welcome to this Dentaljuce course on sharps injuries.
Sharps injuries among dental personnel are extremely common. Almost all dental clinical staff have either had a sharps injury, or know someone who has. Research has shown that such injuries are often unreported, the main reason given being that the processes of dealing with it are considered too onerous.
This module takes you through all the aspects of sharps in dentistry. It is "Highly Recommended" by the GDC as part of disinfection and decontamination training.
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Course Review: Sharps Injuries
Participant Feedback Overview
Participants gave highly positive feedback about Dentaljuce’s online CPD course "Sharps Injuries," praising it for its clear guidance, practical relevance, and effectiveness in updating dental teams on safe sharps management.
Key Strengths
Participants particularly appreciated:
- Clarity and Practical Relevance: The course clearly communicated essential information on the legislation, regulations, and current best practices associated with sharps management and injury response, making it directly applicable to everyday clinical practice.
- Comprehensive Content: Learners valued the thorough coverage of very important topics, such as pathogen transmission, vaccination science, correct disposal procedures, and appropriate responses to sharps injuries.
- Effectiveness as a Refresher: The module was recognised as an excellent refresher, effectively reinforcing existing knowledge while also providing important legislative updates.
Specific Positive Comments:
- "A good module full of good advice."
- "Excellent update."
- "Good course on sharps injury with important updates."
- "Very useful and informative."
- "Very good refresher course."
- "Really good course."
- "Will definitely apply in the dental practice."
- "Relevant topic in clinical practice."
- "This module contains sufficient knowledge regarding sharps injury prevention and management."
- "The overall thoughts about this course: to update your dental team members on how to practise safe management of sharps and avoid injury."
Participants noted how the module reduced uncertainties around managing sharps, helping to alleviate stress and enhance safety.
Closed-Question Feedback Summary:
- Met learning objectives: 100% strongly agree/agree
- Good quality: 100% strongly agree/agree
- Useful & relevant: 100% strongly agree/agree
- Engaging: 100% strongly agree/agree
- Pitched at right level: 100% strongly agree/agree
These results clearly illustrate exceptional participant satisfaction with the quality, relevance, and educational effectiveness of the course.
Suggestions for Improvement
A minor suggestion from participants was to address a few spelling errors identified within the course content to further polish the presentation.
Overall Participant Impression
Participants rated the "Sharps Injuries" course highly, recognising it as informative, practical, and highly relevant. The course successfully enhanced their professional confidence and competence, ensuring safer practices within the dental environment.
Aim
The aim of the learning and teaching materials in this Dentaljuce module is to allow learners to develop their professional knowledge, understanding and competence in Safer Sharps, and managing sharps injuries, in line with their identified personal learning requirements.
Course objective
- to update members of the dental team with the legislation, guidance, and current best practice in the safe management of sharps and correct management of sharps injuries.
Anticipated learning outcomes:
The learner will, with respect to the components that he or she has elected to study as listed below:- Know and understand the laws, regulations, practice requirements and duties governing Safer Sharps and Sharps Injury Management.
- Understand the basic science of vaccination, pathogen transfer and inoculation injury.
- Know the correct use and disposal of sharps.
- Know how to correctly manage and report a sharps injury.
- through achieving these outcomes, provide an improved level of service to their patients.
GDC Development Outcomes
This CPD will support the learner in meeting the following GDC Development Outcome(s): C.