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There is no opting out, OP. This what they trained for.

It's as if an HIV researcher suddenly didn't want to touch the clinical samples. My friend's father once had a situation in his hospital ward - he was accidentally pricked by a contaminated needle. He was fine, as it turned out, but it was definitely a serious scare.[/quote]

I get why you wouldn't opt out if you were on a special infectious disease team that has trained for this kind of event -- at the 11th hour, they can't just have people saying "oh I thought the training was cool but this is too risky for me." But I can't imagine everyone in the entire health system has this special training? My question was can you opt out if you are simply working triage or are a nurse or supply clerk or the 1000s of other jobs in the hospital. But the way they are locking this down, it seems like those other employees won't have to opt in or out because there may be a special team assigned to this unit -- none of the "oh the nurse manager put you on the schedule for Tuesday, so I guess you'll have to deal -- you'll be fine."[/quote]

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