Question

The following situations may occur in the medical office. For each situation, Discuss an appropriate action to take that complies with the OSHA Occupational Exposure to Bloodborne Pathogens Standard.

Situation: You just gave an injection to a patient, and after withdrawing the needle, you notice that there is no sharps container in the room. Action: Recap the needle using a one-handed recapping technique. Why?

Situation: You are getting ready to apply gloves and notice that you have a cut on your finger.

Situation: You accidentally get some blood on your bare hands while removing your gloves.

Situation: A part-time clinical medical assistant was just hired. She is not immunized against hepatitis B.

Answer 1

1)First the wound should be cleaned and make sure it is covered properly with bandage and then puton gloves and give the injection.

2)find if any pointed abrasion on the hand and clean it with betadine solution. Rince the wound with spirit solution and apply bandage immediately to prevent contamination. Make sure you have taken vaccine for hepatitis unfortunately we do ont have treatment for hepatitis c. We should get tested of for HIV prophylactically.

3.health care providers must take hepatitis b vaccine as there is major risk of exposure.Advice the part time worker to get vaccine without any delay