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Hi. I am just wondering everyone's opinion on nurses and exposures to blood born pathogens. I'm a relatively new nurse and I wonder that with as much handling as I do with bodily fluids is there a chance that something could splash in my eye in small (I'm mean really small) amounts and I might not know it and it lead to infection? All my life I've been pretty OCD and worried about "germs," and now that I'm a nurse I worry more with all the close patient contact I have each day. What are your thoughts?
I wrote this because of this thread:
https://allnurses.com/general-articles-about/germ-phobia-strikes-825108.html
bcopeland80
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My guess is that we do, in fact, catch more things outside the hospital than inside. I have been doing clinical rounds for about a year now, and I have been sick all of twice (both times I caught it from my kids too).