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1StrongBlackMan

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4. I was not trying to be a$$holeish; but ...

Reply to Heddi (Reply #3)

Thu Jul 26, 2012, 09:59 AM

Jul 2012

working in HR, I know that some communicable diseases are bars to employment in certain fields and I would have thought that Hep C, like TB, in healthcare would have been one of them.

But after researching the question, I've found that the determination turns on "the likelihood of transmission in the normal performance of duties."

So, since there are few healthcare jobs that entail a likelihood of the exchange of bodily fluids, Hep C (and HIV/AIDS) would not serve as a bar to employment, except for maybe in the fields of surgery and/or phlebotomy.

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I was an agency nurse in Boston Warpy Jul 2012 #1

Don't pre-employment physical batteries ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2012 #2

No, that would be discrimination Heddi Jul 2012 #3

I was not trying to be a$$holeish; but ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2012 #4

I'm a nurse. I've been a phlebotomist. Heddi Jul 2012 #5

I stand corrected ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2012 #6

and for clarification Heddi Jul 2012 #7