he updated the electronic medical record.
"I thought nothing of the maneuver," he says, "as it allowed me bet-
ter visualization of the computer's screen."
When he was done documenting, he returned to the procedure and
bent down to adjust some of the equipment. As he bent over, the pen
in his pocket fell and landed into the bloody liquid that had pooled on
the floor, splashing blood and fluid onto his unprotected face (luckily
missing his eyes).
"It was that moment that led me to take a critical look at not only my
own practices," says Mr. Taylor, "but also the practices of those around
me and the risks we all took with potentially infectious material."
He says recent nursing school graduates are sticklers for following
personal protection protocol, but over time seem to become desensi-
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