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Statutes > Minnesota > 245-267 > 246 > 246_711246.711 CONDITIONS FOR APPLICABILITY OF PROCEDURES.
Subdivision 1.Request for procedures.
An employee of a secure treatment facility may request that the procedures of sections 246.71 to 246.722 be followed when the employee may have experienced a significant exposure to a patient.
Subd. 2.Conditions.
The secure treatment facility shall follow the procedures in sections 246.71 to 246.722 when all of the following conditions are met:
(1) a licensed physician determines that a significant exposure has occurred following the protocol under section 246.721;
(2) the licensed physician for the employee needs the patient's blood-borne pathogens test results to begin, continue, modify, or discontinue treatment in accordance with the most current guidelines of the United States Public Health Service, because of possible exposure to a blood-borne pathogen; and
(3) the employee consents to providing a blood sample for testing for a blood-borne pathogen.
History:
2000 c 422 s 41
