disposal of ns flush syringes-needleless

It's no wonder health care is so expensive!! Sharps containers are weighed, and your facility is charged by the pound...ounce, whatever, of "hazardous materials" (sharps boxes included) that you have to be disposed of.
There is really no reason, except for having blood in the syringe, as to why needleless syringes need to be in a sharps box at all.

vamedic4

I think the reason for them to go in the sharps is so drug users can't get to them.

we were taught in nursing school that ANY needle adaptable syringe had to go in sharps container...or be broken beyond usability.....if by liquid med syringe you mean po syringe, they are not needlge adaptable.....and yes it was to prevent illicite reuse

Needless Flush syringes go in the biohazard regular trash. I see no reason for them to go into a sharps container, which is designed with hard sides so a needle can't poke through. We have biohazard trash cans/bags for items soiled with body fluids that aren't sharps. Would you put bloody gauze from a blood draw in the sharps container?

The one non-sharp I DO put in the sharps container is the glass tubex tubes that a lot of narcs come in. If they break, they become sharps, right? I know a lot of folks who also put wasted narcs (that last 0.5cc of dilaudid) into the locked sharps box. Expedient and you can't get it out again, so makes sense to me.