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How Nurses Use and Evaluate the Ampoule Peel Device: Comparing Manually Opened Vs. Device-Opened Ampoules

ConditionNurse Based Care Management
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age20+
SponsorChih-Cheng Wu

About this trial

Nurses frequently handle ampoule bottles in their daily work, and due to the fragile nature of these glass bottles, manual opening often leads to hand injuries. According to studies, a high proportion of occupational injuries among nurses are caused by handling ampoule bottles, especially hand lacerations. These injuries not only affect work efficiency but also increase medical risks. Therefore, to improve safety and reduce occupational injuries, this study aims to evaluate a patented ampoule peeling device, which has also won the National Innovation Award, to assess whether it can enhance the safety and satisfaction of nurses during their work.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

16 nursing staff members from W72, W75, and the Department of Anesthesiology, who passed the preliminary tests and are willing to continue to the subsequent phases

Disqualifiers

Nursing staff unwilling to participate, unable to manually break ampoules, experiencing difficulty during the preparatory phase, or deciding to discontinue or withdraw during the process.

Trial design

Design model

Single group

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Manually Opened and Device-Opened Ampoules

    Device

    this study is to evaluate the ampoule peeling device in terms of safety, ease of use, time efficiency, difficulty of operation, and user satisfaction among nurses when opening ampoule bottles of different capacities

Treatment groups

16 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group
Group A: Manually Opened and Device-OpenedExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

events of injury

events times and sites of injury from different volumes of ampoules

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year
2

time efficiency

time spent needed to open ampules manually or by ampoule openers by seconds

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year
3

subjective estimation of safety

subjective estimation of safety by a scale out of a maximum score of 5, with 1 stands for "strongly disagree" and 5 stands for "strongly agree".

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year

Secondary outcomes

1

ease of use

subjective estimation of time-saving and difficulty by a scale out of a maximum score of 5, with 1 stands for "strongly disagree" and 5 stands for "strongly agree"

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year
2

difficulty of operation

subjective estimation of time-saving and difficulty by a scale out of a maximum score of 5, with 1 stands for "strongly disagree" and 5 stands for "strongly agree"

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year
3

user satisfaction

estimation of overall satisfaction rating (Out of a maximum score of 10, with 0 being very dissatisfied and 10 being very satisfied) for either open ampoules manually or by ampoule openers

Time frame
through study completion, an average of 1 year

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Chih-Cheng Wu

Lead sponsor

Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Sponsor institution

Taichung Veterans General Hospital

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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