With my last pregnancy I refused patients with shingles and CMV, but usually no one would assign them to me. I worked with a woman that refused everyone with anything infectious. HIV, Hep C, MERSA, VRE, TB, you name it. This made it difficult as many patients in our city hospital had something or ended up with something. But we let her do it and grumbled under our breath about her being overly cautious.
Have you refused patients while pregnant? For what? Were you supported? Lastly, do you think a pregnant nurse should accept assignments of infectious/isolated patients? (excluding varicella and CMV)