[chadash]

Originally Posted by star0910

One of our midnight CNA's who's been there for 15 years and has seen everything, according to her wheres the same pair of gloves from room to room when she first gets there to do her vitals! I saw, new pair of gloves for each room/patient!!! Thats a great way to spread more germs!!! And she usually has about 15 patients.

Are we to wear gloves for vitals? I usually wash hands between patients when taking vitals, but do not use gloves. I use gloves for any personal care, or when in contact with any body fluids, or laundry items etc. I pair per patient, wash hands when removed, change gloves during care of one patient if the gloves are soiled or when going from dirty to clean areas...is this right?

[SFCardiacRN]

I'd vote for their shoes being nastier (not by far though).

I forgot about the shoes! So gross!!!! Thank God I don't have to answer them

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[Marie_LPN, RN]

Originally Posted by SFCardiacRN

I forgot about the shoes! So gross!!!! Thank God I don't have to answer them

I hate having to fish for the pagers, since they all tuck their shirts in. I hope everyone has clean underwear on. Hopefully they all are WEARING underwear.

[asher315]

Let me ask your opinion. JCAHO is now making unannounced visits and the upper mgmt is going nuts. Now I understand some of their rules and the reasoning and for the most part I agree but why do they insist that no drinks be at the desk??? Yeah, I might spill it or throw it in a doctor's face but is it really a patient care issue? It's a mystery to me! What do you think?

asher

[GI Jackie]

Originally Posted by emeraldjay

To bring this back on topic, those of us at my facility need a doctors order AND a lab confirmed sensitivity to either the yellow vinyl or latex gloves before we can be accommodated.

Our facility used to require a doctors RX to accomodate when I started 7 years ago. Now they have completely eradicated powdered gloves of any kind from our facility. We still have latex gloves but they are not powdered. When I used to have to use the powdered gloves, my hands would get red, chapped and raw. Now that I use powder free latex, I don't have that problem anymore. Maybe the powder was leading to more trouble than it was worth.

[GI Jackie]

Originally Posted by asher315

Let me ask your opinion. JCAHO is now making unannounced visits and the upper mgmt is going nuts. Now I understand some of their rules and the reasoning and for the most part I agree but why do they insist that no drinks be at the desk??? Yeah, I might spill it or throw it in a doctor's face but is it really a patient care issue? It's a mystery to me! What do you think?

asher

That is too funny!! I think they are more concerned with transmitting germs to yourself from the nastiness that everyone else brings to the desk. You know the doc that just checked Mr SO-N-SO'S penile prosthesis without gloves and then used your phone to answer his page.:hatparty:

[babynurselsa]

Don't you think many of the rules that hake you go HHHMMMMM are instituted by JCAHO.
One of the recent ones I encountered at a hospital that I work agency at. You MUST use a dial-a-flow even when you are running your fluids in wide open. I have decided that the folks behind JCAHO secretly own useless medical supply business.

[GI Jackie]

Originally Posted by babynurselsa

Don't you think many of the rules that hake you go HHHMMMMM are instituted by JCAHO.

JCAHO has one and only one job. TO BOLDLY CREATE AND RECREATE STANDARDS THAT THE INSTITUTION MUST ABIDE BY TO HANG A PLAQUE IN THE LOBBY. When they stop creating "silly nurse tricks", oh I mean standards, regardless of how impractical they are, they are out of a job. Now I am not JCAHO bashing. I am actually glad that someone has the unenviable job of being critical all the time, because there are some standards that are no-brainers. But some of the stuff they come up with is incredibly impractical.

[Babybear]

Originally Posted by sagarcia210

We are not allowed to have our own bottles of hand lotion!! The infection control nurse says it can cause a breadown in the durability of our gloves!!
How absurd!! We do not reuse the gloves!!!

It is my understanding that it is not the gloves that it breaks down but instead it is the the hand sanitzer that it iinterfers with.