Body fluid in my eye. Help
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I work in an inner city hospital on a Telemetry/ ICU step down unit. I'm a new nurse and I've been there 7 months now. My patient is positive for HIV and Hepatitis C. My patient also has osteomyelitis and cellulitis and is on isolation contact precautions. I was not told the microorganism for which the patient is on contact precautions for. ( I tried looking through the doctor's notes and lab reports and I couldn't seem to find anything)
Here is what happened.
I was taking out the IV in the Right AC and the fluid that was in the catheter jumped up into my right eye. I didn't see blood in the catheter but it was in the vein regardless. I had to finish what I was doing and it occurred to me 10 or so minutes later that I should tell someone. My floor doesn't have an eye wash station so I went down to the Emergency Department to use theirs for about a minute. I have extremely sensitive eyes so it was painful. On my way back up to the unit I remembered the patient was positive for HIV so my manager took me back down to the ED. a couple hours later after getting my CBC and CMP to test my liver function, I was given a regimen of PEP and took the first dose of pills. Truvada 200mg-300mg 1 tablet daily (3) and raltegravir 400mg (Isentress) 1 tablet twice daily (6) for three days. Then the nurse gave me two prescriptions. One for truvada 1 tab qday x28 pills and one for raltegravir 400 mg 1 tab BID x60 pills.
I don't know if I am supposed to be on this medication for 3 days or 4 weeks. I am also concerned about whatever infection the patient had for the osteomyelitis that may have gone into my eye.
What should I do?