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A nurse in our clinic had a finger stick with a contaminated needle today, the md in the office refused to order any testing stated because he would be liable?

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

That's ignorant.

Its the job's responsibility to provide testing/treatment after an on the job injury.

That nurse needs to be seen within 2 hours of the needlestick, the source pt needs to be tested too.

Here are the OSHA guidelines:

http://www.osha.gov/needlesticks/needlefaq.html

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His reason for not writing the order was that he is a pediatrician, and if it ever came too workers comp and they wanted to see the dr's report and he would get in trouble since he is not certified to see adults. I wrote the order for the lab work. All workmanship comp needs to see is the incident report. Yes I agree ignorant

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Specializes in Nephrology, Cardiology, ER, ICU.

Gee whiz - I feel sorry for the employee.

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