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HIV from saliva
ok i have a question im a cna at an unknown hospital.... we an HIV patient that had just a tracheostomy done a while back. The patient is secreting sputum with blood colored from the trache my question is what if you get hit with that substance on a well intact skin will that me be a mode of transmission or a pimple perhaps..cause we were suctioning the patient from the trache and we turned him to the side but i turned around to get some stuff and i felt a little drop of something in back of my neck and i knew that it was a the patient blowing out from his trache... number 1 is that enough for it to have done anything i read from an article online that hiv is present from saliva would sputum be classified as saliva... please i need everyones support i feel so bad cause we just recently had a young teenager that has HIV and meningitis and seeing him in agony is making me face my own immortality im also a 23 year old and im very afraid
This is the kind of stuff that makes me ill...and sadly it is VERY VERY common. Trained medical professionals literally having NO clue about real risks. I run into this every day at work...and what is bad is people are resistant to education. I can talk till I'm blue in the face...but they still don't believe me. Ya know...a lot like this forum!
SO sad!
If you utilize universal precautions with EVERYONE (b/c remember...for every patient that you have with KNOWN HIV, there may be one or more that has it and doesn't know!!!)...you will be fine. There are much much much worse things to worry about getting as a HCW...MRSA, C-Diff, and many other bacterial infections. You are NOT going to get HIV by changing a diaper, or suctioning a trach.
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SO sad!
If you utilize universal precautions with EVERYONE (b/c remember...for every patient that you have with KNOWN HIV, there may be one or more that has it and doesn't know!!!)...you will be fine. There are much much much worse things to worry about getting as a HCW...MRSA, C-Diff, and many other bacterial infections. You are NOT going to get HIV by changing a diaper, or suctioning a trach.
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all right thanks,,, and again i did not mean to offend anyone...
hiv is transmitted through...
unprotected vaginal/anal sex
sharing iv drug works
mother to child
hiv does NOT just JUMP INTO intact skin...geeeeeeeez.
unprotected vaginal/anal sex
sharing iv drug works
mother to child
hiv does NOT just JUMP INTO intact skin...geeeeeeeez.
im really sorry i didnt mean to offend you i just read your profile.. i mean to be honest i do everything for my patients and today i was upset cause the RN himself didnt want to help change the patient diaper cause i guess he was afraid... im so sorry i didnt meant to offend anyone with my question
Move on.
yes or no
Teak is absolutely correct. Patients don't deserve this at all.
Get a new job. Hospitals don't need ignorance.
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