Patients are told to ask nurses: have you washed?

queengene, i have NO issues with a patient or family member asking me if I washed, but I draw the line at wearing a stupid button. I do think it's beneath me.

Smiling I agree that buttons may be a little to much but if it raises awareness than I dont see the problem. Maybe if patients feel free to ask regular staff they will then begin to notice that the physicians too need to heed the call for hand washing.

i will go to a reasonable limit, to reassure my pts., i.e., wash my hands in front of them....anything beyond that, especially wearing a stupid button is patronizing, insulting and condescending. nurses get the brunt of everything and this is just one of the many final straws.

agree wholeheartedly with lisaloulou......... what these badges are saying is that it is the nurses who are the cuplrets. No-one else. As a guy I can assure you that not many of us wash our hands after using the loo...... I do but not many do. That is a fact.

I would hope nurses that happen to be male would wash there hands after the bathroom. <sigh>