The preventive strategies for HIV exposure among medical staff
- VernacularTitle:艾滋病病毒职业暴露的防护与思考
- Author:
Fangling HUANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
HIV;
Professional exposure;
Prophylaxis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing
2006;0(09):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To give a clear definition of professional exposure to HIV and map out the preventive strategies. Methods To propose the preventive strategies for preventing professional exposure to HIV according to the relative knowledge and the practical nursing measures. Results The preventive strategies include the recognition from the administrative authority, care about the exposure suits for preventing HIV , the establishment of a reasonable by law, properly handling the wound when exposure happen and report the accident to local CDC and arrange HIV test at 4,8,12 week and 6 month after exposures. Conclusions The medical staff lack the knowledge of preventing professional exposure to HIV, the intensive training is urgently needed. It is better to involve the professional HIV exposure as one of the professional injuries by law in order to relieve the medical staff′s anxieties about HIV exposure during the course of working.