Healthcare wastes (HCWs) are one of the most hazardous wastes globally; second to only radiation waste. In developing countries especially in Africa, healthcare waste has not received the much needed attention that it deserves. This is because of the inadequate resources in these countries resulting into low priority for HCW management. The objectives of the study assess nurses' knowledge about, find out nurses' attitude towards HCW management and identify the factors influencing HCW management among nurses in selected hospitals in Abeokuta, Ogun State. A cross-sectional non experimental descriptive survey design and convenient sampling technique was employed. Self developed instrument with 32 items was distributed among 129 eventually 120 correctly retrieved among nurses who are directly involved in generation and disposal of healthcare waste in the State hospital ijaiye and Oba Ademola II hospital, Ake Abeokuta. Data collected were analyzed using Statistical package of social science (SPSS) version 2.0 and presented with percentage and frequency tables. All the three (3) research questions were answered based on the findings of the study which can be deduced that revealed that majority (75.0%) of the respondents have high knowledge on HCW management while only few (25.0%) of them have low knowledge on it. Majorities (88.3%) of the respondents have positive attitude toward health care waste management while only few (11.7%) of them have negative attitude toward it. About factors influencing HCW management among respondents almost all (99.2%) of the factors have high impact and influence on health care waste management while only few (0.8%) of the factors is of low impact on HCW among respondents. According to the findings it is therefore recommended that Nurses should further improve their knowledge as regards the various forms of colour coding waste segregation beyond what is utilized in their health institution, healthcare waste inspectors must be introduced into the health sector for close monitoring of improper healthcare waste management. Conclusively, Nurses still need to brush up their understanding about certain aspect like location or sites to correctly carry out treatment and disposal of HCW and the extensive colour coding segregation system of HCW not just three colour.

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Nursing process is a scientific, systematic and continuous professional dynamic skills approach of solving patient problems/needs. It encompasses a set of scientific rationale used to assess, identify, diagnose, plan, implement, evaluate and re-evaluate continuous nursing care rendered to patient care. The study aimed to assess the Factors influencing Uptake and Utilization of Clinical Nursing Process by Nurses in LUTH, Lagos State. A non-experimental descriptive survey approach was used to select 100 respondents using convenience non-probability sampling technique. Data obtained were analyzed using frequency tables, percentage scores and pie chat were used to describe the data findings. The findings revealed that Factors Influencing Uptake of Clinical Nursing Process by Nurses include; poor hospital policy towards nursing process utilization in the wards, insufficient materials for the uptake of nursing process in most wards, nurse-patient ratio is deficient to completely allow uptake of nursing process, nursing process requires longer time for documentation, inability of hospital management to acknowledge nursing process as a model of nursing care delivery. Likewise the factors Influencing Utilization of Clinical Nursing Process by Nurses were number of nurses to patients ratio in most ward resulting to inappropriate utilization of nursing process, nursing process is time consuming, hospital management does not recognizes and motivates staff Nurses for applying nursing process on patient care delivery, inappropriate provision of stationery to support nursing process in most wards, low availability of nursing assessment and intervention equipment for nursing process in the hospital, poor provision of NANDA lists guideline to utilize for nursing diagnosis. Also, nurses have good knowledge and understanding of Nursing Process through training they received from Colleges, MCPDP, and seminars/workshops on Nursing Process, most of the Nurses have adequate skills in implementing and utilizing all that are required in the different components of the nursing process and they were able to utilize Nursing process correctly, effectively and efficiently. However, most of the Nurses did not need much instruction and seminar to practice nursing process in Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

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