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nurse aide
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- Jurisdiction
- Oklahoma
I just started a job nurse aide, yesterday I had my physical for the job and asked the dr if I am supposed to disclose that I have hepatitis c, he said as long as I take precautions like I am supposed to it shouldn't be a problem. Today was my first day after about two hours the head nurse took me in her room and told me that I disclosed at my appointment that I had hepatitis c, that I can not work with patients directly because of my hepatitis c, that she would try to see what else is available at the hospital for me to do, but for now I had to come home. My question is, is this legal?? I mean if I take all precautions to prevent a patients disease from infecting me as required how can I infect them, and isn't it a HIPAA violation for the doctor to be telling that information to my employer, he didn't write it down on my physical screening paper that I had to turn in so why did he go talk to the nurse about it, I wasn't their patient just employment screening. Just looking for advice I know that nurses sometimes get infected with this disease from patients, do they automatically lose their job then? I am pretty sure they do not, wish I would have known I was not obligated to tell anybody that but I thought I was doing the right thing