kritter01

Whew. Thanks to everyone here for responding, you guys have made me feel a lot better. I don't think it was a rumor... here's how the story "changed" after I talked to her a bit more: Another nurse noticed the possible infected nurse with the PPD test on her arm and it was huge. Not within the 2-5mm accepted range (so I was told by my fiance). She contacted their DON who told the possible infected nurse to goto the emergency room. Since then she has not returned from the ER and noone knows more. My fiance doesn't want to say anything to anyone about it, she just wanted to inform me. I guess I panicked a bit, but at least I came here instead of calling 911 and going to the ER :) Thank you all, I appreciate your comments very much. -Kyle

That does make me feel better. I hope you're right to give this lady the benefit of the doubt. And you're right about my ignorance of TB, but from what my fiance told me it does NOT sound pretty and can end in death. Scary stuff. I'll keep ya posted if you'd like; I'm sure I only got a part of the story in the five minutes she had to relate this to me. Thanks.

Hello, My name is Kyle and my fiance is a LVN in Texas (she's doing LTC). She just found out tonight that her boss knowingly hired a person with tuberculosis who starts treatment tomorrow. This person has been working there for the past week. I have so many questions and I'm so full of rage, and I want to know if I'm making a big deal out of nothing... What do we do? What if she gets sick? We have a four year old and nothing is scarier than thinking about her being infected with a deadly disease because her mom's boss wanted to keep the schedule full and let this infectious person work there. This "boss" was also under the impression that tuberculosis was a blood-borne illness, not a highly-contagious airborne one. Thanks in advance, Kyle