Undergraduate Thesis

Waste segregation is the process of dividing garbage and waste products and it is the first step in a compliant waste management plan that will help the environment. However, improper segregation process and disposal can cause many things on environmental sanitation and healthy safety. This study were examine the perspective and practices of the staff nurses of the two (2) public hospitals in Southern Manila and also examined their knowledge regards to waste segregation and identified the effects of waste into environmental sanitations and health safety due to increase of waste generation or products. Quantitative designed used in this study to obtain a variety of information on the same issue, to use the strength of each method to overcome the deficiencies that could come from using one design and to achieve a higher degree of validity and reliability. The researchers used descriptive method because it aims to describe and determined the present waste management practices and perspectives in the selected public hospitals in Southern Manila and was able to evaluate them by comparison. In this study, the totals of respondents are 111. The 72 respondents are coming from 1st hospital and the 39 respondents remaining are coming from 2 hospital. The questionnaires were validated by chief nurse, infection control nurse and clinical instructor. For reliability test we undergone pilot testing which result 0.9 it means excellent. Data was analysed using statistical mean in the statement of the problem no. 1 and 2, Pearson correlational coefficient in the statement of the problem no. 4 and T-test in the statement of the problem no. 3. Based from the gathered data, the analysis and interpretation of the following finding revealed: Data presented in the table 1 showed the weighted mean distribution of perspectives of staff nurses of two hospitals in southem Manila about waste segregation, the hospital A total weighted mean of 3.85 and the hospital B total weighted mean of 3.88 are interpreted as excellent means the nurses have adequate perspectives in relation into waste management and the way of looking of nurses towards waste segregation is good condition especially in waste categories and difference wastes because of seminars and trainings implement by hospitals. Table 2 shows the weighted mean distribution of practices of nurses regards to waste segregation of two public hospital in Southern Manila with the total weighted means were 3.50 for hospital A and 3.54 for hospital B are interpreted as high extent. It is apparent to the results nurses have a good practices in waste segregation and the proper waste disposal. In Table 3, shows the t-value of difference between public hospitals in terms of perspectives and practices in Southern Manila with - 0.32 this meant that there was no significant difference between hospitals in terms of perspectives and practices. On the results in table 4, it is concluded that there is positive correlation between the practices and perspectives. Based on the result in table 5 a proficiency rating of nurses on health safety and environmental sanitation is high. This means must nurses have knowledge to promote health safety and cleanliness of environmental sanitation includes of prevention of potential risk on the environmental hazardous. Based on the conclusions and the outcome of this study, the researchers would like recommend that the hospitals received award for the most cleanliness and have good environment to influence positive changes leading to healthy environment and health safety regarding to the waste segregations.