>At Scarborough, we are the point of contact for staff members with needle stick
injury (unfunded of course!)
The risk factor is supposed to be assessed by the patients care team (they don't
normally) and we are supposed to initiate the treatment stored in the department
and pass the patient on to the STD consultant for the final decision on continuation
We are unhappy about it but with a part time Occy health service what can one
do?
APV
>A question to any A&E consultants (or SpRs) on the List.
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>Our occy health consultant has politely suggested that we should >participate
in the "needle stick hotline", i.e. offer advice and >counselling to any trust
staff members who sustain a needle stick >injury, including advice on post-exposure
prophylaxis and immunisation >etc, 24 hours per day. She quoted that 80% of
A&E departments already do >this! She's way off the mark isn't she? Maybe 80%
of departments keep >the triple therapy packs in their drug cupboards, but I
doubt 80% of A&E >consultants offer this sort of service. We're not trained
for this, are >we? Does anyone out there have experience of this, or is she
trying to >dupe us into doing her work for her?
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>Adrian Fogarty
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