Dean Clinic officials want patients who saw the nurse between 2006 through 2011, should come in for HIV and hepatitis B and C testing. They are currently trying to contact these individuals by phone and letter. Clinic officials are saying that as of late Monday no one had detected any diseases connected to the nurse.
The clinic's chief medical officer is saying that the nurse was a certified diabetic educator, and her job was to train newly diagnosed diabetics on how to inject insulin and how to use finger prick devices for blood tests.
The demonstrations were supposed to be used on pillows and oranges, but not the patients themselves. Although she used clean needles each time, but she used the same pen each time exposing the patients to a microscopic backwash of blood to flow back into the pen's reservoir.
Clinic officials have refused to release the nurse's name or why she left her job two weeks ago on August 10. This is the same week that another clinic employee came forward about the nurses' improper practices.
Officials are saying that the risk is minimal, but these people should still be tested.