I need advice..quick..can you help?!
Question: I need advice..quick..can you help?
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Inform your boss. Get it documented, and they can set you up with screenings to make sure that you have not contracted anything.
To the additional details: Wet material is infectious, dried material is much less infectious. See the site below, take a deep breath, and relax. What's done is done, but it sounds like you do not have much to worry about. You do want to get future screenings, 1. to ensure nothing was transmitted, and 2. for your peace of mind.
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you really need to inform your boss and get it documented. people do cut themselves with razors, so i would err on the safe side and report it. if it becomes infected or you require any treatment, you will need the report to back you up that it is something you did at work.
i have done home health care through a few different companies. i am also a CNA. if there were situations like you have described, any of the places i worked at would work to get cleaning supplies in the residence (most of it occurred at no cost to the client). you may want to share the lack of cleansers and supplies in the residence too, in case they can help in any way.
good luck! i would be a little worried too. you just never know what could be on anything.
Well instead of worrying, just inform your boss just incase this does happen and see how he reacts, if wants you to wait it out, then wait it out, and he was to take procedures of it then listen to him, but no matter what tell him for the sake of it getting infected and u could inform him it was from that incident. What u would do now is just keep it clean, put two bandades over it...just make shure you clean it as you are a CNA, and if it gets infected they have to cut the part off,remove tissue, or drain it...
Not a big deal as you think, Better to be safe then sorry tho! :)
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