If a patient comes to the hospital with viral gastroenteritis...

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do they quarantined?

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Define what you mean by "quarantine ". It generally means separating healthy people who have been exposed to a disease in order to see if they will become ill.

Someone who comes to the ED with a GI virus will be treated with universal precautions.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Curious as to why you ask since you are not a nurse, nor are you in nursing school.

14 questions in 4 days...you're exhausting us:laugh:

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

Simple gastroenteritis does not meet the cdc guidelines for quarantine

Per the CDC the following conditions require quarantine of healthy individuals potentially exposed (patients with a condition are isolated not quarantined)

Federal isolation and quarantine are authorized for these communicable diseases:

Cholera

Diphtheria

Infectious tuberculosis

Plague

Smallpox

Yellow fever

Viral hemorrhagic fevers

SARS

Flu that can cause a pandemic

Source: http://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/aboutlawsregulationsquarantineisolation.html

Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

depends on labs - if they are infectious to others then the answer is yes

Specializes in OB-Gyn/Primary Care/Ambulatory Leadership.

Oh my word. I just looked up the OP's other posts. What gives, OP? Why all the weird questions?

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.
depends on labs - if they are infectious to others then the answer is yes

Quarantine is for healthy individuals potentially exposed to an infectious disease to see if they develop the illness.

Sick, infectious (or suspicion of certain infectious conditions such as c diff, MRSA, VRE, measles, varicella, etc) patients are isolated not quarantined. ;).

OP, The type of isolation (contact, reverse/protective, droplet, airborne) is dependent on the diagnosis or suspected diagnosis.

You cannot self-teach nursing school through AN. You must actually go. The deluge of questions lately isn't helping you, it's showing you to be hyper-focusing on what doesn't matter.

Yes, there will be vomit. And "stomach bugs". And med-surg rotations. And all manner of unpleasant things to get past, without a doubt, on your journey to your dream career in a psych clinic.

Specializes in Complex pedi to LTC/SA & now a manager.

People get viral gastroenteritis and vomit in psych also. Especially when changing or stabilizing on certain psych meds nausea/vomiting/diarrhea are often side effects. Never mind psych patients who are bowel obsessed.

Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
People get viral gastroenteritis and vomit in psych also. Especially when changing or stabilizing on certain psych meds nausea/vomiting/diarrhea are often side effects. Never mind psych patients who are bowel obsessed.

Had a psych patient in clinicals who had a colostomy. He would let "things" build up, then put on his call light. Using a large-bore catheter, hw would then forcefully spray whoever answered the call light with the contents of his bowel. We never did figure out who was supplying him with the catheters.

They aren't quarantined, and even if they were, nurses are still going to be required to care for them, vomit and all.

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