Hello, doing research on my major made me realize there is a lot that can happen in the field I want to major in. Did you know in the medical field 600,000 -1 million needle sticks and other sharp injuries happen every year according to centers for Disease Control and Preventation. Imagine how many technicians get stick end up with disease that wasn’t from them just because they were stuck by someone else’s needle. Medical technicians have to deal with a lot of DNA, whether they are sick or not. Needle sticking or getting stabbed by an sharp object in the medical field industry can lead to disease, stressful and scariness.
First off, getting stuck by someone else’s needle is one thing but getting stuck with a sickly individual is way different for example when I say sickly I mean a person that has AIDS and ect not a person with a cold . In the nursing field, nurses get stuck by needles every day for example. “We were getting approximately 50 needles stick a year in our institution because of the cumbersome nature of the device we were using to draw blood” quote by ( Medscape). So just imagine every nurse that get sticks by a person needle has a chance of getting HIV, Hepatitis any sort of disease can end up with it. 80 percent of blood contact happens through needle sticking, making most causes of health care work related to blood borne pathogens. Being a medical technicians the field works with a lot of blood, you have to transport the DNA from a needle that leaves open opportunity for anything to happen during that time. In the medical field nurse make up 24 percent of the cases HIV infection among any type of health care workers known or thought to be infected by their job.
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As I wrote this research paper, I came to a conclusion that my major medical technology is not a field to play about. Anything can happen to anytime and anywhere definitely a needle sticking. The facts I have proven to you also makes you think is the medical field actually worth doing. It can lead up to disease, stress, and scariness to your body. If you are willing to take the risk in the medical field make you do your homework on which field you plan on working in.
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