Nurses are the most important healthcare workers in the hospital. Providing healthy and safety working environment for nurses are the first component for the hospital. In Taiwan, most hospitals only focus on the nurses’ occupational injury prevention, the national reporting system or indemnifying system for nurses’ occupational injuries did not work very well. In order to decrease the injury rate for nurses and help injured nursed get back to work in a short time, it is essential to established national reporting and tracking system or indemnifying system for nurse in Taiwan. The study is going to compare the occupational injuries’ reporting system in other countries and established suitable occupational injuries’ reporting and indemnifying systems for Taiwan. Hospital nurses and hospital managers will be the study sample. The study will first understand Taiwan’s and other countries’ nurses occupational injury reporting/ indemnifying system by literature review. Questionnaires about hospital injury reporting system will be conducted for nurses and hospital managers to understand the cognition difference between clinical nurses and hospital managers. Questionnaire will be mailed out or telephone interview to nurses and hospital managers separately. The study expects to receive 400 questionnaire from nurses and 100 questionnaires from hospital managers. In the part of study analysis, the study will use descriptive and bivariate analysis to compare the difference between clinical nurses and hospital managers. In addition, the study will hold experts panel meeting to established occupational injury reporting system and standard operational process for the most common six occupational injuries for nurses. The study will choose 2 to 3 hospitals to implement the reporting system which established by this study. The study will also evaluate the implementing outcomes and choose a “magnet hospital” as a standard hospital for other hospital as references.
