Nurses General Nursing
Published Jan 17, 2009
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:
Shenanigans, RN
234 Posts
Unless they're having sex or sharing needles, I have to go with the majority and say they're pretty safe.
VivaRN
520 Posts
And let me just add that "they" knew about it 10 years or so before you saw the announcement. Its my opinion, and I'm not big on conspiracy theories, that there was so little interest in this nasty disease because of the populations it originally seemed to affect.
Anyone interested in the history of the AIDS epidemic in the US will like "And the Band Played On", by Randy Shilts. He was a SF journalist who covered the epidemic from the beginning and later died of AIDS. Awesome and inspiring book.
I used to work on a hospital floor primarily composed of HIV/AIDS patients. My experience was they do not need to be isolated unless they are put on neutropenic precautions (ANC
While having a clinical definition of AIDS (CD4
With an ANC
ANC = Absolute Neutrophil Count, is calculated by total WBC's x % neutrophils (for the OP) :typing