Safe Injection Practices

Answers To Questions Your Patients Will Be Asking:
Educating NY Providers & Patients about Safe Injection Practices

If you or your staff routinely provide injections or administer IVs, your patients may soon be asking some critical questions.    The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC) to pilot the “One and Only Campaign,” http://www.oneandonlycampaign.org,  (“One Needle, One Syringe, Only One Time”), an injection safety educational effort to promote greater awareness of basic infection control procedures when healthcare providers administer any type of injection.

 

To help raise awareness about the consequences of unsafe injection practices and to remind healthcare providers about the basics of injection safety, the Safe Injection Practices Coalition has created the following posters and brochures for use in provider's offices, in patient rooms, and work areas. These materials are hyperlinked below as PDF files and will be available to order in the near future.

· Healthcare Provider Brochure
· SIPC Poster: Rx for Safe Injections
· SIPC Poster: It's Elementary
· One & Only Campaign Logo (Providers)
· One & Only Campaign Logo (Patients)
· FAQs Regarding Safe Practices for Medical Injections


The One & Only Campaign is a public health campaign, led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Safe Injection Practices Coalition (SIPC), to raise awareness among patients and healthcare providers about safe injection practices. The campaign aims to eradicate outbreaks resulting from unsafe injection practices.

Background
Since 1999, more than 125,000 patients in the United States have been notified of potential exposure to hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and HIV due to lapses in basic infection control practices. Many of these lapses involved healthcare providers reusing syringes, resulting in contamination of medication vials or containers which were used then on subsequent patients.