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If ever a nursing student had hepatitis B, can he or she still continue to take up nursing and work abroad??? |
If ever a nursing student had hepatitis B, can he or she still continue to take up nursing and work abroad??? It depends exactly what type of job it is because that person wont be able to work as a scrub-nurse in operation-theatre if the blood test shows the person can still transmit the virus. If a person had Hep-B in the past then there are two possibilities: -The person might have recovered fully and is now immune to the disease. -The person still has chronic infection and may or may not be infective (can transmit the disease to others). This we can ascertain by doing blood-test (serology). So it all depends on the serology (done by blood-test to know the antibody status), type of job and hospital policy. Two important serology tests which denote that the person is potentially infective are HBeAg(Hepatitis B e antigen) and viral load (no of virus particles per ml of blood). There is clear evidence that doing non-invasive procedures doesn't pose any risk of transmission. Also check following website to know more about the issue. Hope it was useful. Cheers! Source(s): http://www.needlestick.org/dlwa/osh/wp2.... http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetroot/04/01/22/... http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/hepat... |
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