How and why is it that employers can and do ask you if you
have ever had TB and make you get tested for it every year. Patients
are asked if they have had it or been exposed to it.
However, nothing is ever asked like that about HIV. You don't
ask pt's re HIV at triage or upon admission to a hospital.
I don't see how it is im****tant to know about only one.
Yes, I know that it is easier to spread TB than HIV, but it is also
easier to spread many diseases easier than HIV, but we don't ask about
those.
Thanks
Mike
And for the record: I think that JCAHO is a useless public works
program to give self im****tant nurses a job. Kind of like the WPA,
but at least the WPA did some kind of useful work. Not make work to
keep themselves employed.
Nurses also do the most work, take the most crap and are the first out
the door when "financial" cuts occur. At my hospital, the CEO's bonus
could cover the salary of 5 FTE Nurses. Yet when cutbacks occurred,
they got rid of the nurses and since the CEO saved so much money, they
gave him a bigger bonus. - Sorry to vent and rant...yet what I said
was true. But I have no solution, so I *****.
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