Are nurses able to shower after shift?

[Humaneclowninscrubs]

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.

[Tacocat, ADN, RN]

36 minutes ago, Hannahbanana said:

So you think there are "butt germs" on the vinyl banquettes at the Country Buffet? Does your butt slide onto them, and then do you touch your pants, or your purse, or the car seat that your pants just sat on after your meal? Does your hand that helped you slide into your booth then touch the salt and pepper? Did the hands of the people who sat there before you arrived? 

I keep thinking of someone angrily farting out of spite in the booth at the Old Country Buffet now. 

 

[SmilingBluEyes]

Old Country Buffet?  Buffets are the dirtiest places of all. I would never eat there. I am not germ phobic, but they are disgusting.

[Hoosier_RN, MSN]

6 hours ago, SmilingBluEyes said:

Old Country Buffet?  Buffets are the dirtiest places of all. I would never eat there. I am not germ phobic, but they are disgusting.

I very seldom go out to eat. Yeeeaaarrsss ago, I worked in food service, and I know what can, and does, go on behind the scenes. At least at home, I know what I'm getting, and what has touched my food and table, etc. 

SBE, buffets are indeed the absolute worst!

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

You have made my point. Buffets may “be the worst” but if humans were in gross danger from those exposures we would have public health shutting them down every day for disease clusters. Since that is not the case, there are two possibilities: one, buffets and their ilk are not seething stews of pathology, or two, normal humans are immunologically competent to deal with  most of whatever the environment throws at them.
Since humans have survived for literal eons with little to no hygiene at all, I have to give credit to our immune systems. It appears we have them for a reason, and they work.