Harbor:Occupational exposure
Harbor Management
- Exposure during weekdays (non-holidays), from 7:00a-3:30p:
- Send employee directly to Employee Health office for evaluation
- Except if employee has sustained injury that warrants ED evaluation (i.e. laceration)
- Goal time from exposure to Employee Health office < 15 minutes
- Have provider for source patient call Employee Health at x2360
- Gives NP in Employee Health a contact in case of labs need to be drawn on source patient
- Do not draw any labs on source patient, unless asked to do so by the NP in Employee Health
- Send employee directly to Employee Health office for evaluation
- Exposure during all other times:
- Employee with potential blood-borne pathogen exposure should be evaluated in ED
- Create and use "Occupational Exposure" dot-phrases to guide evaluation, assess risk, need for testing, and indications for obtaining ID/HIV consult
- If exposure warrants rapid HIV test on the source patient, then must give source patient opportunity to opt out of HIV test
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HUCLA