Colleagues,

 

In your setting, do you always have a PA/APRN/MD/DO see the healthcare

worker with a BBP exposure?   The question is whether there are any

prohibitions (rationale, regulation, scope of practice) to having an RN do the initial evaluation, give PEP if warranted (under standing

orders) and following the HCW during the process of PEP and serial testing (as applicable)?  Our practice has always been that a clinician does this, but there are other entities doing it differently.  Just want to hear your takes on this.

 

Thanks,

 

Susan Fair, MPAS, PA-C

 

YNHH Occupational Health Plus

 

New Haven, CT