Barbara Fassbinder Barbara Fassbinder graduated from high school in 1971; she married Dave Fassbinder before earning a nursing degree from the University of Iowa in 1975. Barbara’s husband was a commercial bee raiser. Barbara and her husband had three children. They lived in a small Midwestern town, happily married. Barbara worked as a Registered Nurse at Memorial Hospital in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin; she lived about 15 miles east of her home in Monona, Iowa. Hilchey, from New York Times stated, one night, in August 1986, Barbara was called in on her day off to work the night shift, she agreed to come in that night; it was early that morning, Barbara and the other nurses and doctors were trying to save the life of a sick young man brought into the emergency room, it was at that moment when Barbara was removing the IV line from the man, she covered the site with a two by two inch pad of gauze, but the man's blood seeped onto her gloveless hands, which had scratch marks because of a weekend of gardening, which left her hands pone to infection. The man died later in the night after doctors tried to resuscitate him. An autopsy later showed that the man died of AIDS. After the incident, 15 employees tested negative; Barbara eventually discovered that she could not give blood due to the infection. She became the first health care worker documented to have contracted HIV other than through a puncture; universal precautions were not required at that time. In addition, there were no requirements to wear gloves when removing IV lines (Sanger, 2001). Barbara had a second test done, but it came back positive for HIV. For four years, Barbara and her husband kept it confidential. Eventually, Barbara realized that compensation from work was inadequate; she agreed upon a settlement for her medical care. Fassbinder feared for her other associate nurses