[MCOH-EH] Management of BBPE

[Lennis Walker]

What testing do you do for employee and for source patient? Would you
send me a copy of your packet?Sent from my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S10
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>>> "Thrasher, Terri (Terri)" <Terri.Thrasher at cchmc.org> 01/29/2020
18:02 >>>
EH will do the source testing.
They go to their employees solution for their own testing and follow up.

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  *   All BBPEs are seen in Employee Health during our work hours (go to
the ED after hours/weekends and notify Nursing Supervisor to assist with
Source Pt testing),
  *   Employee Health  follows up to ensure their testing is completed
and ensures appropriate counseling and investigation of their exposures
occurred.
  *   Employee Health covers the cost of their evaluation and initial
testing as well as ED cost.
  *   Employee Health provides recommendations for follow-up testing.

From: MCOH-EH <mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net> On Behalf Of Debbra Tatum
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2020 15:43
To: mcoh-eh at mylist.net
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Management of BBPE

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How do you manage non-employee (e.g., student, agency/contract employee,
or Licensed Independent Provider) BBPEs that occur in your health care
facilities?

Currently, we have our non-employee exposures seen in the ED. 
Non-employees are responsible for knowing their school/agency’s policy &
procedure for BBPEs while working in one of our health care facilities. 
We have provided education to our own staff about how non-employee
exposures are to be handled, but almost always there is some issue with
the process.  More often than not the ED runs them through as an
employee, uses the employee lab slips (this prevents them from having
access to the results as they go into our private database in EPIC) and
we are billed, we often are tracking down the individual to ensure they
have contacted their agency, determine if they received their test
results, etc.

We have written a separate policy for the management of non-employee
exposures, and plan to make separate non-employee post-exposure packets,
however;  I’m not certain that this is going to improve the process
(even with education). It could make it more confusing.

To ensure all employee exposures are evaluated adequately and seen in a
timely manner, I am considering recommending that we manage all the
BBPEs the same within our organization.

  *   All BBPEs would be seen in Employee Health during our work hours
(go to the ED after hours/weekends and notify Nursing Supervisor to
assist with Source Pt testing),
  *   Employee Health will follow up to ensure their testing is
completed, and ensure appropriate counseling and investigation of their
exposures occurred.
  *   Employee Health would cover the cost of their evaluation and
testing if seen in the ED.
  *   Employee Health will ensure that their agency is notified to
ensure any follow up testing or treatment and this would be arranged by
their agencies.

Please share how you are handling these exposures and what process is
working well for you.


Debbra L. Tatum, RN BSN  |  Employee Health Nurse
GOOD SAMARITAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
3600 NW Samaritan Drive | Corvallis, OR 97330
P 541-768-5279 | F 541-768-5424
dtatum at sa[cid:image001.png at 01D5D6BC.B436BEA0]


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