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Why can't caregivers in a home be told if a patient has HIV or AIDS? |
What is wrong with this world that a caregiver going into someone's house to take care of them for 8 to 16 hours a day can't be told they have HIV or AIDS? They are there to take care of all kinds of people with all kinds of illnesses or accidents, but AIDS is the one disease they can't know of. How screwed up is this? It will only spread more AIDS as they are more casual in the home, not wearing gloves for 16 hours, and it won't give the victim the best care, as they are taken out and exposed to germs like a non-HIV person. Is this an insurance thing to say screw the AIDS victim and care-giver alike? Because no matter what the person has you are taught in nursing school that you are to use univeral precautions. Not only do these precautions help you, they help stop the spread of disease. If a person has an infectious disease you should be gowning up and disposing of all material in a proper container. Air borne diseases require masks, etc. If you are using all the precautions you are taught to use, you should have no problem. That's completely f*cked up. its your responsibility to read the chart Because as a Health Care Professional, you are expected to uphold the Universal Precautions. Like wearing gloves, washing hands, using sharps containers......etc. It is a violation of their pride in a way. You should treat every patient equally. If you knew that they had AIDS, you'd probably be extra cautious. You should protect yourself no matter what, and give them the best care, regardles of their HIV status. Privacy issues. My son is a DR. and during his surgical rotations he was stuck with a needle through his gloved hand (while the patients heart was being worked on) during one operation and he had to wait out six months of tests to find out whether he had contracted AIDS or Hepatitis from the incident as he was not allowed to have tests run on the patients blood. "askbabbs": This Asker isn't a nurse, didn't go to nursing school. This is a caregiver. |
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