New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 57 - COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
Subchapter 5 - MANAGEMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS
Section 8:57-5.7 - Notification of precautions to protect the public health
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The public health nurse case manager or designee within the health jurisdiction of residence of any patient with a sputum smear positive for AFB or cavitary lesions on chest radiograph or computed tomography scan with respiratory symptoms shall notify the patient verbally and in writing of the infection control measures required to protect the public health within three working days of the receipt of an initial TB-70 form.
(b) If the patient described in (a) above is hospitalized outside the health jurisdiction of his or her residence, the public health nurse case manager or designee in the health jurisdiction where the patient is hospitalized shall deliver the notification as set forth in (a) above within three working days of being informed of the patient's presence in the facility, regardless of patient's health jurisdiction of residence.
(c) The notification described in (a) and (b) above shall list all infection control measures applicable to the patient, and shall request the patient to observe these infection control measures until no longer necessary to protect the public health.
(d) The public health nurse case manager in the patient's health jurisdiction of residence shall inform the patient previously required to comply with infection control measures within one business day of when infection control measures are no longer required.
(e) The health officer or designee in the patient's health jurisdiction of residence shall serve the patient required to comply with infection control measures with either a health officer order for isolation established at 8:57-5.11, or health officer order for temporary commitment established at 8:57-5.12, whichever is necessary to protect the public health within one business day of any refusal to comply with or violation of infection control measures.
The adopted version of this section 56 N.J.R. 213(a), effective 1/3/2024 is not yet available