Are you allowed toasters?

Well, you know, some disgruntled parient might rig the timer and put in a Poptart bomb.

Oh my!!! Where hospitals go, LTC facilities usually follow!

How many breakfasts do we make for our pts with early morning dialysis or other appts? This would be a BIG problem.

We do not have a toaster in our ER but we have one in our cafeteria...

For you, Emergent.

I luvs the toaster at work. I'd be very sad.

Oh my!!! Where hospitals go, LTC facilities usually follow!

How many breakfasts do we make for our pts with early morning dialysis or other appts? This would be a BIG problem.

We have not been permitted toasters on the unit for quite awhile. TWICE people walked away, the food got stuck or the toaster malfunctioned and significant fires started and 911 was activated. It has happened once with a unit microwave when a nurse walked away after selecting 30 mins instead of 3 mins and forgot to come back. We have a new policy-If that happens again the staff involved will get a three day suspension.

Some of our kitchen staff start at 5am, we can get an early breakfast tray for people with appointments or send them along a bagged brunch.

That's nothing new.

while there is a fire risk, most likely it was related to false alarms from the smoke detectors.

Periodically, the FD would come, and we would have to evacuate our whole medical office building...all because of some overdone microwave popcorn

That led to a ban at this major medical center.

No toasters in my building even in the break room...smoky messes one too many times.

We can have toasters, but they can't be plugged in unless someone is standing there. More inconvienent, we can't put the kitchen dishes in the microwave, so no reheating meals that have gone cold. All the hospitals I've worked at have used the same type of dishes, but this is the only hospital where you can't nuke them.

I'll agree with ktwlpn for the ban re microwave ovens. I've also been working when someone scorches the popcorn and the alarms go off.

But I have NEVER been lucky getting early breakfasts from dietary. Requestions have been duly sent and I leave a repeat memo taped to the kitchen door reminding the early staff of the need for a tray. But NADA!!!

It would be pitiful that I would be unable to send out a pt for an appt without a breakfast. I' m not asking for a gourmet tray. And it's not like I'm taking the food out of the dietary staff's mouths. I go thru the channels to my DON, the dietary manager & the dietician but I get lip service for a day or two, then NADA again.

So the toaster is a necessity where I've been. It has sunk so low that I resorted to bringing in boxes of cereal, hot & cold, to keep on the unit to serve the pts Now that's SAD!!

Don't take away my toaster!