Infectious diseases pose a high risk in health care centers. Health care professionals often come in contact with infected blood and other body fluids. Universal precautions are measures taken by these professionals in order to protect themselves. Universal precautions training will ensure that all employees follow simple guidelines to protect themselves while dealing with patients and handling body fluids. It is essential that employees are taught how to handle blood and body fluids in a safe manner. Then accidents and spread of infection can be prevented.
Precautions need to be taken for all patients even though any outward sign of infectious disease may not be seen. This is because many of them will not have any symptoms when they come for initial treatment. If proper precautions are not taken diseases like Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV can spread.
5 major guidelines in universal precautions training are discussed below:
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