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I don't know about you, but out in the "real world" I've seen a lot of things that would not fly in school! Here are a few:
Pre-popping pills
Not using MARs on med pass
Not washing hands/using sanitizer between patients
CNAs not wearing gloves to clean up BM
Not wearing gloves to do fingersticks
Like I said, these are just a few. Can anyone think of anything else???
Seriously, the bad habits are just terrible. What are you thinking? There is a way to speak up and I don't see how you could avoid addressing the issues!! I don't find much funny about such disgusting habits as no gloves for cleaning residents, are you kidding me!!! And no one said anything!!!! And then what did she do? What did she touch next? And you think this is funny??????????????????? George Carlin, is funny. Robin Williams, Chris Rock..that's funny. Bad medical care is not funny.
pulling caps off tubing and needles with my teeth
oops - guilty as charged!!
I also chew on the ends of pens, which I know is way gross, but I haven't got any nasty infections yet that will teach me not to do that either (fingers and toes are crossed)......
as for the full moon thing, anyone who says crazy stuff doesn't happen on full moons should work in an Alzheimers unit................
don't find much funny about such disgusting habits as no gloves for cleaning residents, are you kidding me!!!
Bad medical care is not funny.
Look here, Toots. I don't call not gloving for a quick cleanup "bad medical care." Either you're not a nurse or you haven't been one for very long.
If you were or had you read anything about the history of nursing and/or infection control in healthcare, you'd learn that it's only been since the "Age of Aids" that we were able to use gloves at all for anything but sterile procedures. We were formerly taught that gloves were too impersonal and their use would offend the patients.
Quite a debate raged about how to use protection without offending the patient. We then went to Universal Precautions. Now it's "Standard" Precautions and offending the patient is not even factored in.
Some people find that horrifying, considering the messes that we have to clean up. It's hard for me to imagine that back then I recall ASKING to use gloves--and being refused because except for sterile gloves, there were NONE in the building!
PS The next thing we touched was the sink to wash our hands.
Seriously, the bad habits are just terrible. What are you thinking? There is a way to speak up and I don't see how you could avoid addressing the issues!! I don't find much funny about such disgusting habits as no gloves for cleaning residents, are you kidding me!!! And no one said anything!!!! And then what did she do? What did she touch next? And you think this is funny??????????????????? George Carlin, is funny. Robin Williams, Chris Rock..that's funny. Bad medical care is not funny.
OK, I'll amend my previous response.
I disagree that not wearing gloves every single time constitutes "bad medical care."
Just as I might've been more diplomatic in addressing you, you also might've been more diplomatic in your first post on this site.
End of discussion.
Picking up any newspaper, anywhere, to check the obituaries, or the police report. :yeahthat: :yeahthat:
I am currently in paramedic school and will be starting nursing this fall. I have gotten into the habbit of checking the obits everymoring when I come in to work at my regurlar job.
Why is this such a bad habbit? So far it doesn't seem to be bad...what is the result...
NOT WEARING GLOVES????? OMG that is truly disgusting. I would not want to get care there!
:uhoh21: I would not want to eat with those hands after touching BM!! OH NO!! that probably means they aren't washing up after their OWN bathroom visits either; they aren't scared of the bacteria!!!!!! EDUCATION PLEASE.......
INSERVICE PLEASE.... OFFICIAL REPREMAND (reprimand?...) PLEASE.....
Tweety, BSN, RN
36,337 Posts
How true, how true, how true.