Research Article
Knowledge on Hospital Waste Management among Senior Staff Nurses Working in a Selected Medical College Hospital of Bangladesh
Table 2
Frequency distribution of respondents about hospital waste.
| | Characteristics | Frequency (percentage) |
| | Hospital waste produced by | | | Clinical care provider | 58 (46.4) | | Patient | 32 (25.6) | | Investigation department workers | 19 (15.2) | | Nonclinical care provider | 0 (0.0) | | Cleaner and supporting staff | 16 (12.8) | | Knowledge about general waste | | | No right answer | 63 (50.4) | | One right answer | 57 (45.6) | | All right answers | 5 (4.0) | | Knowledge about infectious waste | | | No right answer | 0 (0.0) | | One right answer | 79 (63.2) | | Two right answers | 38 (30.4) | | All right answers | 8 (6.4) | | Knowledge about biomedical waste | | | No right answer | 4 (3.2) | | One right answer | 90 (72.0) | | Two right answers | 22 (17.6) | | All right answers | 9 (7.2) | | Waste hazardous to public health | | | No right answer | 6 (4.8) | | One right answer | 52 (41.6) | | Two right answers | 27 (21.6) | | All right answers | 40 (32.0) | | Knowledge about sharp waste | | | No right answer | 0 (0.0) | | One right answer | 64 (51.2) | | Two right answers | 41 (32.8) | | All right answers | 20 (16.0) | | Knowledge about pharmaceutical waste | | | No right answer | 38 (30.4) | | One right answer | 77 (61.6) | | All right answers | 10 (8.0) | | Knowledge about radioactive waste | | | No right answer | 26 (20.8) | | All right answers | 99 (79.2) | | Knowledge about liquid waste | | | No right answer | 4 (3.2) | | One right answer | 88 (70.4) | | All right answers | 33 (26.4) | | Knowledge about segregate of waste | | | No right answer | 45 (36.0) | | All right answers | 80 (64.0) |
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