These just seems so gross to me - Page 5

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  1. May 14, '12 by
    Quote from sharpeimom
    wooh...

    i certainly hope you were wearing your official allnurses guide cheerleader's uniform when you did that cheer!
    it wouldn't have been as good otherwise.:d
    i was wearing my official allnurses tiara, forgot to change before i posted..... oops....

    Quote from sharpeimom

    my question is since we don't have an autoclave, should we be boiling them too? we've also been setting them on
    the back porch (faces west) on warm days. thanks!
    you need to turn them upside down and shove them into the ground. this will stop evil spirits from coming up from hades through the ground, as they'll be collected in the urinal. then husband can pee on them and drown them. i'm all about holistic nursing, and this will care for him spiritually as well as physically.
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    May 14, '12 by
    thanks canedukesgirl and wooh!

    i've boiled all kinds of things so it's good to know not to boil the urinals. i'll be so darned glad when he's back
    in the regulation two matching shoes again!

    i was wondering where all the spirits and things would relocate to now that the harry potter series has finished...
    i'll report if i see any spirits from hades...
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  3. May 14, '12 by
    When I was a nursing aide on evenings back in nineteen-smumble mumble, we put everyone on the pans at bedtime, and collected them all on the same cart we distributed breakfast trays on. I got to run 'em thru the hopper, including a shot of steam, and then take them all back.
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    May 14, '12 by
    Quote from hygiene queen
    hoppers...

    lord helped you if you held the bedpan the wrong way while you were hopping it...
    my ex-husband, who was a maintenance guy at the nursing home, actually devised and constructed nifty clear shields that fit onto the hoppers to prevent splash-back.
    i could almost see you hygiene queen wearing the latest "splash-shield" fashion
    hoppers... omg i thought they got rid of those way back when
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  5. May 14, '12 by
    I don't understand why they need to be disinfected and redistributed, but. . .

    What's the difference between bleaching a bedpan and some housekeeper squirting hospital-strength 409 on a bedside commode? That bedpan's gonna be a lot cleaner than a semi-private room toilet that maybe gets wiped once a day. I personally never understood why 2 semi-private room patients could share a toilet that was inside a bathroom but not a bedside commode, just because it wasn't inside the bathroom. No one ran in the bathroom between patients and disinfected the seat, heck, the patient was lucky if they could get someone else to come move the other person's hat (with urine in it).

    I SO do not miss adult care. . .
  6. May 14, '12 by
    Quote from TiffyRN
    ...That bedpan's gonna be a lot cleaner than a semi-private room toilet that maybe gets wiped once a day...
    Yours got wiped once a day? Sheesh - you were lucky! Spent a good hour wiping toilet seats down last weekend just because I couldn't stand it anymore.

    Quote from TiffyRN
    ...I SO do not miss adult care. . .
    Hasn't changed all that much - pity. But, someone's got to do it!

    And, in honor of State doing their inspection at my facility - "FOMITE! FOMITE! Rah, rah, rah!"


    ----- Dave
    Last edit by IEDave on May 14, '12 : Reason: 'Cause I Can't Bloody Spell!
  7. May 14, '12 by
    Quote from Hygiene Queen
    Hoppers...

    Lord helped you if you held the bedpan the wrong way while you were hopping it...
    My ex-husband, who was a maintenance guy at the nursing home, actually devised and constructed nifty clear shields that fit onto the hoppers to prevent splash-back.

    BTW...
    We also used to clean stool with washcloths.
    (I still swear it is the best way to properly clean a patient.)
    We rinsed the cloths in the hopper, threw the cloths into a bucket of bleach solution and housekeeping washed the cloths (in house) in the monster washers and killer-hot dryers.

    I know some of you will think I worked in a nasty nursing home, but that is the farthest from the truth.
    When I tell you that was the cleanest and best run facility I ever did see, you better believe it.
    When I started as a cna 14 years ago....we used soap and water and wash rags and also cloth diapers for those who needed them. I still think that is the best way also.
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  8. May 14, '12 by
    What I don't get is when facilities want to reuse towels and washclothes that are saturated in feces/blood/whatever bodily fluid. You can't wash everything out and even if you could, that's just yucky. I dump out heavily soiled linen even though it's heavily discouraged.
  9. May 14, '12 by
    More and more health facilities are now conscientious about environmental health; and they know the concept of : reduce, reuse, and recycle.
    Hats off also to those facilities that do not just clean, but also disinfect utensils (commode, bedpans, urinals, beds, wheelchairs) routinely.
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    May 15, '12 by
    Quote from notpuurfctbtgdenghns
    more and more health facilities are now conscientious about environmental health; and they know the concept of : reduce, reuse, and recycle.
    hats off also to those facilities that do not just clean, but also disinfect utensils (commode, bedpans, urinals, beds, wheelchairs) routinely.
    i have two words for you....well said.