Bag barrier paper

[ttouslee]

What is everyone using for the barrier paper for their home health bags. We have been using infant scale covers cut in half but are just about out. Need to reorder or would like it if I had another option??

[tktjRN]

We use paper scale liner towels from Medline

[tktjRN]

We use paper scale liner towels from Medline.

[LaRN]

most companies i've worked for have not made this a priority. they either don't supply them or they are extremely slow with re ordering when they run out.

most of them just tell us to use a newspaper.

[1hotnurse08]

When I worked as a home health nurse a couple years back, we used newspaper as a barrier.

[Kabin]

I have a rolling bag. Should I roll/carry the bag in and set it on a liner? Or is that only intended for carry in bags?

[ttouslee]

I don't know the state reg on a rolling bag but would think the same principale would apply, that there needs to be a barrier between bag and surface in the home.

[ttouslee]

Thanks everyone, appreciate the input

[1hotnurse08]

We didn't have rolling bags. We had tote bags and I also used a newspaper as a barrier to set my bag on. The patients were offended at times but I would nicely and politely explain to them that this bag isn't the only house that I have to tote it in. We also had a disposable wipe we kept in our bags to clean it with!!

[CatHair]

Old thread but I never use newspapers because

A: I don't have any and it is pain to get them for free now. (well it is for me) If I am going to pay for something I would prefer something else.

B: If newsprint ink gets on my hands, it is going to potentially get on patient's things. But I don't like the rubbing off on the hands part.

C: Looks like you are saying that patient's stuff is contaminated and they get offended.

D: I use clean newsprint from UHAUL instead: LINK There is a UHAUL store everywhere. $10 for 200 big sheets of off-white paper.

It looks more professional as well. I have also found that patients will ask me what the paper is for and they say "no one else ever does that, they just plop their bags down and go to work". hmmmmm.....

[diamondintherough]

The Uhaul paper does not prevent liquids from passing through it!!!