Hepatitis scare Arizona Prison

[mursejohn]

http://www.poz.com/articles/arizona_nurse_prison_hiv_hepatitis_1_25090.shtml

a recently hired nurse at Corizon Inc., the private health care provider for the Arizona Department of Corrections, used one needle to stick the fingers of her inmate patients to test their blood-sugar levels, cleaned it off with alcohol and then used that same needle to draw insulin from the vials to administer the medicine. This error potentially contaminated the remaining insulin and exposed her patients to blood-borne pathogens.

[Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN]

Did all of the inmates gets their insulin from the same insulin vial?

Don't you have that bottle in regular insulin that you use for multiple patients? IN the ED we do not open a fresh regular insulin bottle for every patient that requires regular insulin.

[ChristineN, BSN, RN]

Don't you have that bottle in regular insulin that you use for multiple patients? IN the ED we do not open a fresh regular insulin bottle for every patient that requires regular insulin.

In my ER we still use multi dose vials, especially since many pts just get 1 dose. The floors use patient specific insulin pens for each pt though

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

When I worked in LTC, each patient had their own insulin supply. In the hospital, each patient had their own insulin pen.

Are all of the diabetic inmates getting the same insulin? No one gets Lantus or Novolog?

[TiffyRN, BSN, PhD]

When I first started working NICU many nurses used a 25g needle for a heelstick if all they were getting was a blood sugar, but everybody got their own!!!

[OrganizedChaos, LVN]

When I worked in LTC each patient had their own insulin supply. In the hospital, each patient had their own insulin pen. Are all of the diabetic inmates getting the same insulin? No one gets Lantus or Novolog?[/quote']

I've worked in corrections & it's all the same, multi use. Yes, some inmates get Lantus or Novolog but again it's multi use & if another inmate needs one of the two, we use the same bottle. In a jail or detention center setting the inmates aren't there long enough to have their own personal insulin ordered. Plus I'm sure it's cheaper that way.