Table 4: Study group risky nursing activities

Activity		No.	%
Risky behaviour in handling areas
	Eating food	16	45.7
	Drinking beverages	13	37.1
	Storing food and beverages & using cosmetics	6	17.1
Risky nursing activity: Preparing and administering CDs
	Improper place for preparing and handling CDs	20	57.1
	Expelling air from syringes filled with CDs	20	57.1
	Needle stick injury during preparation and administration of CDs	19	54.3
	Contaminated hands and poor hand washing	18	51.4
	Priming the IV set with a drug-containing solution at the patient bedside (this procedure should be done in the pharmacy)	16	45.7
	Administering CDs by intramuscular, subcutaneous, or IV routes	12	34.3
	Generating aerosols during the administration of drugs, either by direct IV push or by IV infusion	8	22.9
	Counting uncoated oral tablets from multi-dose bottles	5	14.3
	Collection of blood, urine and stool samples	5	14.3
	Crushing or breaking tablets to make oral liquid preparations	5	14.3
Risky nursing activity: Handling contaminated material
	Handling contaminated material generated during preparation and administration process and cleaning spills	14	40.0
	Handling contaminated linens and clothing of patients treated with CDs	7	20.0
	Handling contaminated wastes generated at any step of the preparation or administration process	6	17.1
	Changing bed sheets	5	14.3
	Handling body fluids or body-fluid-contaminated clothing, dressings, linens, and other materials	4	11.4

IV, intravenous; CDs, cytotoxic drugs