Departmental Self Review - UCLA Academic Senate

3. UCLA School of Nursing allows persons who are HIV-positive to remain on campus, butthey must not engage in or endorse life-style practices which might pose direct threat oftransmitting the virus to others.4. UCLA School of Nursing will not undertake program screening to identify personsinfected with the HIV virus unless required to do so by law. Students and Universityemployees desiring HIV testing are directed to seek assistance from their personalphysicians or the public health departments.5. It is expected that all health care professionals adhere to medically determined policiesregarding the safe disposal of hypodermic needles, blood, and other bodily fluids.Adherence to these same precautions will be practiced in laboratory courses andwherever members of the UCLA School of Nursing community, includingadministrators, faculty, staff and students encounter bodily fluids.6. UCLA School of Nursing employees will protect the confidentiality of any person whotests HIV positive, as mandated by the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.7. Students and University employees involved in extra-curricular activities and/oractivities, which place them at risk, shall take appropriate, precautionary measures toreduce risk to themselves or others.8. Due to the inherent risks of laboratory and nursing-clinical facilities, students arerequired to take appropriate precautionary measures in dealing with the blood and bodyfluids, handling of needles, and any laboratory or hospital equipment that may pose athreat to themselves or to other persons. In the event of an incident involving risk of HIVor Hepatitis transmission, the student or University employee has an ethical duty toimmediately report the incident to a designated University official.9. Additional information on AIDS/HIV can be obtained from the Center for DiseaseControl (http://www.cdc.gov) (http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm)Procedural Addendum to UCLA School of Nursing’s AIDS PolicyIn addition to the University AIDS Policy, the following statements apply to nursing studentsand faculty in the School of Nursing in relation to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV),Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), Hepatitis C Virus(HCV), Hepatitis D Virus (HDV), and Hepatitis G Virus (HGV) since health care activities mayput an individual at higher risk for these diseases.1. No individual shall be denied an opportunity for admission into the nursing program oremployment in connection with the nursing program because that individual is infectedwith a dangerous communicable disease such as HIV, AIDS, HBV, HCV, HCV, or HGV,so long as (a)UCLA School of Nursing is able to make reasonable accommodations for187