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The current study was done in order to assessment of effectiveness of the training on medical waste management provided to nursing students who studied at Nursing Department of Health Sciences Faculty, Gümüşhane University. 309 students were included in the study. The students were applied with one group of pretest and posttest. A pretest of 20 questions about medical wastes was administered to the students 1-3 days before the training in order to explore their medical waste knowledge levels and to detect the effectiveness of the training. Instructors and lecturers provided the students with three hour training about identification and classification of hospital wastes, the term of medical wastes and hazardous waste, management and importance of medical wastes, separation disposal recycling of medical wastes, potential risks posed by medical wastes and dangerous wastes for healthcare workers and public health, points that nurses should consider about hospital waste management and measures to be taken by nurses in practice. At the end of the training, students received the posttest and were assessed out of 100. In a result, it was found that there was a significant difference between pretest scores and posttest scores (p |
