Resident with STD

[erika89]

The other day i was at my lunch break with several other cnas. I was telling one of them how much of a monster one of the residents is she then told me that this resident had herpes and to wear gloves when ever I took care of her. Later that day I asked the Rn if it was true and she looked me in the eye and said no so that was that. A couple days later I was mentioning to her that I had applied to the nursing program at my school and for some reason I was nervous about doing care plans so she told me I should go through some of the resident's charts and check some out. So there i am going through the monsters chart and there it says along with some other conditions genital herpes. So my question is did she have the right to lie to me. Oh by the way i told all the other cnas on the unit about the monsters little problem.

[lvnandmomx3]

IMO universal/standard precautions were put into place so that we are protected as well as our patients. As I see it if we use the same precaution with pt x that has a clean bill of health adn the same for pt z that has one or more communicable diseases they are not treated differently. If you use different precaustion for therse pt's then you send a silent message that something is wrong with pt z.......

off topic a little bit but I think hanging sigs outside the door with glove/gown and glove/gown/mask is a big red red flag and HIPPA violation also(IMO)... I think that the health care staff that would be in jepardy and performing evasive procedures should be the only one privy to this information.

[sirI, MSN, APRN, NP]

Thread closed for staff review.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

MODERATOR NOTE: This thread has been cleaned up of at least 16 personal attacks and negative posts. Since it was such a hot topic, we're going to leave the thread remained closed. I think the OP got plenty of feedback and not need to go further with it.

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