Maintaining quality patient care while increasing staff safety: AIDS update

As nurses, our belief is that not enough is known regarding AIDS or the HIV virus that causes it and because of this, concern among health care workers is justified. Prompted by this concern, we developed a protocol that we think will help improve staff safety while maintaining quality patient care. We are sharing our ideas as this concern affects all nephrology personnel. The intention of this article is to enable others in this field to establish a protocol based on their own individual situations and needs.