Did AIDS patient can share same room with other patient?

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In my long term care facility, have one AIDS patient who share same room with other old man. I just want to know is that OK?:igtsyt::stdnrsrck:

Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.

Yes, you can allow them to cohort in most cases.

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.

It appears that you don't have knowledge of the transmission of AIDS and the virus that ultimately leads to it.

Please ask your instructor. He or she will be able to explain it to you.

I wish you well in school!

*~Jess~*

PS - Pagan...I saw your icon and thought "aww, that must be Pagan & her hubby." Then I realized the people looked rather familiar...then the lightbulb went on, haha.

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Specializes in CTICU.
In my long term care facility, have one AIDS patient who share same room with other old man. I just want to know is that OK?:igtsyt::stdnrsrck:

Are you a nurse yet? How is it that people, let alone HCW, don't know this?

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i would love to see this aids pt have a private room.

thinking of all those colonized pts and workers, sends chills down my spine.

i would like to see him protected as possible.

but me thinks the facility is considering the bottom line in $$.

leslie

couldn't have said it better myself. It's safe for the negative patient. If anything, be concerned he may catch an opportunistic infection from his roomie.

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

PS - Pagan...I saw your icon and thought "aww, that must be Pagan & her hubby." Then I realized the people looked rather familiar...then the lightbulb went on, haha.

I thought the same thing, lol! What a beautiful shot.

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Specializes in Management, Emergency, Psych, Med Surg.

Yes you can. Unless either patient has an illness that was cross contaminate the other.

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It appears that you don't have knowledge of the transmission of AIDS and the virus that ultimately leads to it.

Please ask your instructor. He or she will be able to explain it to you.

I wish you well in school!

*~Jess~*

PS - Pagan...I saw your icon and thought "aww, that must be Pagan & her hubby." Then I realized the people looked rather familiar...then the lightbulb went on, haha.

I still think is not safe for both patients, it's because the $$$$$$, they put them in the same room. How about that old man confuse one day, use that AIDS patient's razor or other things. who know's?????

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I really think you need to go and speak with your instructor. Also do some reading on HIV and AIDS. I am doubtful that the "AIDS pt." has full blown AIDS and is sharing a room with someone who is much more a risk to him than he is to this old man that isn't imuno-compromised. And for an instructor to say that this is an "AIDS pt" if he is in fact only infected with HIV is outrageous. Do a google search on AIDS and HIV, I'm sure you'll see what exactly I mean.

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.
I still think is not safe for both patients, it's because the $$$$$$, they put them in the same room. How about that old man confuse one day, use that AIDS patient's razor or other things. who know's?????

This is along the lines of what I was thinking...primarily the fact that the roommate has dementia and the health status of the roommate since the other man has full-blown AIDS.

I agree..separate rooms for both of them.

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Specializes in Cardiac, ER.

It amazes me that in 2009 people still ask this question.

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Are you a nurse?

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
primarily the fact that the roommate has dementia

]I think that unless the roommate's dementia will cause him to sexually assault or share needles with his HIV-infected roommate, that's not really an issue.

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]The truth is, a lot of times it's not known who has HIV or AIDS and who does not. That is why universal precautions are so important. Use them, and there is no need to worry. Unless every nursing home or hospital patient is tested prior to admission for these diseases, we're not going to know, and doing that would be expensive and a violation of privacy. You never know, your favorite waitress, your salesperson at Victoria's Secret, your child's Sunday school teacher...they could all have HIV.

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]Maybe it's because until now I've worked in an inner city area where IV drug abuse rampant and therefore so is HIV, but it doesn't freak me out. I know the first time I had an HIV patient that I was aware of, I was a bit freaked, mostly because I had to obtain a blood sample from him. However, I used universal precautions so I had no fears of infecting myself. I also used those precautions to protect HIM!

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]I know of a hospital in a well-to-do, conservative city wherein the nurses become terrified when an HIV patient is admitted (once in a blue moon!) and treat the patient as if he or she will breathe on you and infect you. The funny thing is, had these healthcare workers not known the patient's status, they wouldn't have acted that way. A little knowledge can be dangerous.

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]*~Jess~*

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