Administrative response to issues of health-care worker safety and HIV exposure

This last example raises the philosophical side of the cost question. The guarantee of a safe work environment is a goal. The efforts to achieve this goal are balanced with the mission of the hospital to provide medical care to those in need. The leadership of the hospital adjusts this balance through the endorsement of policies and through funding of programs. The HIV epidemic has raised ethical, social and financial questions that we are all working to answer.