Documenting an employee exposure follows the same steps as documenting any other employee incident, except for changing the exposure type and, possibly, documenting a Sharps Injury and/or documenting information about the Source Patient. Please read the Incident Visit Overview and, if needed, see the Incident Record Overview.
The program includes several powerful tools to assist you with managing exposures:
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If you are using exposure follow-up protocols, you can put the protocols right into the software, then Assign an Exposure Follow Up Protocol to the employee, and have the software automatically calculate the Next Due dates according to the protocol.
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Once the protocol is scheduled, the program can also send incident follow-up reminders to aid in having the employee comply with the protocol.
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You can even print an Encounter Form for the follow-up visit that includes the activities for the visit that are specified in the protocol.
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If you licensed Net Health Employee Health and Occupational Medicine for hospital employee health and you have a multiple employee exposure, the program can save you a great deal of time: you document the incident details one time, then click the names of all the people who were exposed. The program will re-create the incident details in each employee record. You will have to follow them separately, of course, but at least you won't have to enter the same exposure information into the software over and over again!
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If you licensed the software for hospital employee health the software includes the Employees on Protocols Report and the Exposure Analysis Report to help in managing employee exposures, and prints the Sharps Injury Log according to OSHA standards.
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