Are nurses able to shower after shift?

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Hi I was wondering if most employers have locker rooms with showers so staff can shower after shift and then go home. Well clock out, shower then go home.

Specializes in retired LTC.
42 minutes ago, JadedCPN said:

Good luck with your CNA schooling, and good luck working only at facilities that have showers available and maintained. 

I think you're really going to have a SUPER BIG problem. No where can I think of that has showering facilities readily avail & designated for staff. No to hosps and NHs. And do you think you'd be taking a shower at a pt's home??? REALLY??? Even if something has been provided, who do you think just used it AHEAD of you and did they clean the pieces? YUCK!

Just read the postings here re how sloppy piggy coworkers are when then use the common break rooms kitchen areas! YUCK!

As a new member to AN, I try to say Welcome. But you're starting off wrong on the wrong foot by insulting all of us experienced members here. (Not a good beginning!)

Also, you might want to change your screen name & pic. Anonymous is good on social media! (And I say this to all members who post identifying names, NOT picking on you.)

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
2 hours ago, ChristopherGllardoJr. said:

I will first take off all my clothes in the lockerroom

Not all units offer access to a locker room, and those that do tend to restrict them to staff on the unit. The only units in my facility with access to a locker room are those required to wear hospital issued scrubs.

 

2 hours ago, ChristopherGllardoJr. said:

I will as a future CNA refuse to work anywhere without a working and appropiately regularly cleaned and maintained shower at work.

That is going to severely limit your options to the point of essentially not having any employer meet your requirement. My OR has a shower stall. Until about a month ago, it was where the Christmas decorations have been stored. Hasn't been cleaned in years.

There's a healthy level of precautions, and then there's beyond healthy. You're well on the path to unhealthy. Trust me, with the attention to PPE and hand washing brought about by COVID, your coworkers are less of a walking germ factory than the person you bump into in the grocery store.

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Specializes in Home Health Care.
40 minutes ago, amoLucia said:

I think you're really going to have a SUPER BIG problem. No where can I think of that has showering facilities readily avail & designated for staff. No to hosps and NHs. And do you think you'd be taking a shower at a pt's home??? REALLY??? Even if something has been provided, who do you think just used it AHEAD of you and did they clean the pieces? YUCK!

Just read the postings here re how sloppy piggy coworkers are when then use the common break rooms kitchen areas! YUCK!

As a new member to AN, I try to say Welcome. But you're starting off wrong on the wrong foot by insulting all of us experienced members here. (Not a good beginning!)

Also, you might want to change your screen name & pic. Anonymous is good on social media! (And I say this to all members who post identifying names, NOT picking on you.)

I would think it would be standard across all health facilities to have decontamination zones for all staff regularly cleaned, maintained, and enforced.

How else would they expect disease not to spread?

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Specializes in Home Health Care.
4 minutes ago, Rose_Queen said:

Not all units offer access to a locker room, and those that do tend to restrict them to staff on the unit. The only units in my facility with access to a locker room are those required to wear hospital issued scrubs.

 

That is going to severely limit your options to the point of essentially not having any employer meet your requirement. My OR has a shower stall. Until about a month ago, it was where the Christmas decorations have been stored. Hasn't been cleaned in years.

There's a healthy level of precautions, and then there's beyond healthy. You're well on the path to unhealthy. Trust me, with the attention to PPE and hand washing brought about by COVID, your coworkers are less of a walking germ factory than the person you bump into in the grocery store.

Then perhaps this is a very immediately important issue that needs to be addressed asap especially in consideration of the current events of COVID19 and Hospital Staff being exposed and dying to it?

Do you recommend an official I could contact regarding this lack of basic staff hygiene and decontamination facilities and regulations?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.
4 minutes ago, ChristopherGllardoJr. said:

How else would they expect disease not to spread?

By following the proper requirements for PPE and hand hygiene.

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Specializes in Home Health Care.
5 minutes ago, Rose_Queen said:

By following the proper requirements for PPE and hand hygiene.

Hand washing does not address the obvious contamination of one's clothing, shoes, face, and hair.

In normal circumstances this would suffice, but in Hospitals where the high probability of numerous highly infectious diseases existing it would seem to have proper precautions in place common sense?

COVID19 is 1 such example, it spreads very quickly and can live on many surfaces for days.

I am aware of the plastic aprons and shoe covers available for staff in highly infectious zones, but can all staff wear these at all times while in the Hospital?

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.
3 minutes ago, ChristopherGllardoJr. said:

Hand washing does not address the obvious contamination of one's clothing, shoes, face, and hair.

In normal circumstances this would suffice, but in Hospitals where the high probability of numerous highly infectious diseases existing it would seem to have proper precautions in place common sense?

COVID19 is 1 such example, it spreads very quickly and can live on many surfaces for days.

I am aware of the plastic aprons and shoe covers available for staff in highly infectious zones, but can all staff wear these at all times while in the Hospital?

You obviously don’t understand the hospital setting and standard precautions as well as PPE use, which is to be expected for most non-healthcare workers. If staff were to wear the gowns that you’re speaking of at all times while in the hospital, they’d be doing more harm than good. Much like when covid first happened and there was a lot of education put out to discourage people from wearing gloves all the time like at the grocery store.

You are more likely to know ahead of time what type of infection or bacteria someone has in the hospital, rather than someone you run in to on the street or in the grocery store. That knowledge, and knowledge of the way different germs spread, guides us to know which protective equipment to wear and how to handle it. I’m much more scared of the random person in the store than I am of a known infectious person in the hospital.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

We're not talking DECONTAMINATION.

Standard infection control procedures that follow current science-based recommendations have been working.

If you are this seriously germ-concerned, you'll need to reassess your decision to enter health care. Unless you're the 'boy-in-the-bubble', there's no such thing as germ-proofing yourself.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

I don't recommend health care for the anyone who is clearly gemaphobic.

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Specializes in retired LTC.

Just an after-thought - all across the country, facilities are surveyed & held to standards by Dept of Health and JCAHO. Standards established by CDC and public health officials.

THEY'VE NEVER QUESTIONED YOUR SHOWERING ISSUES AND INFECTION CONTROL! To my knowledge, I doubt any deficiency has ever been cited for lack of showers for staff.

If that's good enough for them,  ......

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Specializes in Community Health, Med/Surg, ICU Stepdown.

In the 2 hospitals I've worked at the only place for staff to shower was OR. Staff who asked could use it if we asked. 

Randomly the community clinic I worked at had a beautiful, big clean shower, on the admin floor away from pts. One doctor used it because she biked to work. I used it once a week when I taught an exercise class after work. Nice to come home clean. Also, I worked on a covid unit for 10 months and drove home in my scrubs every day, yet here I am! LOL

To ease your anxiety, the way almost everyone gets covid is through respiratory transmission, not touching their clothes and then their face. It's caused by breathing in droplets from someone talking, coughing, sneezing, singing, etc. There are studies showing how long covid lasts on various surfaces, but I didn't see anything about it lasting on cloth. Sounds gross but unless your scrubs have copious amounts of infected secretions on them, you touch them, then rub your eyes/nose/mouth, I don't think you'll get covid from your scrubs! I think smaller droplets even if they did hit your scrubs somehow under your PPE, would just absorb... ew. Maybe just don't touch a counter a covid pt just sneezed on and then apply chapstick LOL

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On 4/14/2021 at 4:59 PM, ChristopherGllardoJr. said:

Wouldn't this put those whom you allow to ride in these cars at risk of bacterial infections in addition to yourself especially if you have vulnerable children or elderly to take care of?

You are aware of the reality of transference of bacteria from one surface to the next?

 

(checks the calendar)  Hmm, Spring.  Seems about the right time for MedSchoolTrolls to be blooming.

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