Some foreign-born medical and dental students with chronic hepatitis B virus are being subjected to Draconian policies or rejected from schools and institutions, though in most cases they can be managed with very little threat to patient safety, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations for chronically HBV-infected health-care providers and students include the following key measures:
Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, director of Infection Prevention and Quality at Methodist Hospital for Surgery in Addison, TX, has been elected the 2013 president of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Past research has linked contact precautions with adverse health events like patients developing delirium, increased risk of falls, or pressure ulcers.
