You are … an ophthalmic technician (OT) working in the office of ophthalmologist Angela Chun, MD, a member of the Fulwood Medical Group. You are communicating with … … Mrs. Jenny Hughes, a 30-year-old computer software consultant. She walked into the office with painful, red, swollen eyelids and a sticky, purulent discharge from both eyes. The administrative medical assistant did not hold her in the reception area but brought her directly to you. Mrs. Hughes complains of headache and photophobia, and says her eyelids were stuck together when she woke up this moming. She tells you that a couple of days earlier, she had gone into a small business office to install software at the firm’s 10 workstations. One of the employees was absent with pink eye. Mrs. Hughes wants to know if she could have contracted the disease from that employee’s keyboard, and how to prevent her husband and two children from getting it. In your hand, you have a pen and clipboard with the office Notice of Privacy Practices and sign-in sheet for her to sign. How do you proceed?
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