The Legislature hereby finds that health care providers are at risk of significant exposure to the blood and other body fluids of patients as a result of their work. The testing of such body fluids for the presence of infectious disease is necessary to provide postexposure risk-reduction methods and treatment, if necessary, for health care providers when there is a significant exposure to the body fluid of a patient and there are unresolved issues of consent by the patient to the testing of such fluids.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-514.01
Health care providers; legislative findings
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Murphy v. City of Grand Island (2007)
Most recently applied in Murphy v. City of Grand Island (December 2007)
Laws 1994, LB 819, § 7.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.