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Imagine that a patient has come into an emergency room with a headache, and they are given a hospital pillow to rest their head on while they are seen. Later this patient is diagnosed with a contagious disease. Based on what you know about modes of transmission, explain why the job of the environmental services staff is important in this case and what might happen if they did not take their job seriously.

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Their job become increasingly important the moment the patient was discovered to be contagious. Anything contaminated by the patient must be properly disposed of. If environmental services staff doesn’t properly do their job the bacteria can spread very quickly.
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