Is it common practice for your hospital to post clinical educational materials in the bathroom across from the toilet? How about pie charts and graphs representing your unit's "weak" areas that need improvement?
I am employed at two hospitals and they both use this method to inform and enlighten their "captive" audience.
I nicely asked one of my NM to reconsider this style of teaching. I nicely told her I found it offensive and unprofessional. She smiled, nodded and nothing changed.
Specializes in NICU, PICU, PCVICU and peds oncology.
Our management has the same habit. We asked in a staff meeting if we could have one propaganda-free bathroom, preferably the small one and they agreed. It lasted about a month and now we're back to being prodded with our failures again. (CRBSI, VAP and wound infection rates are what usually get posted in there.)
Specializes in med/surg, TELE,CM, clinica[ documentation.
Every unit in my hospital has a wall in the bathrooms covered with papers about everything from the night shift committee to reminders about the "vis" sheet for inoculations. I ignore them, that is not the way to educate.
In ours, it includes the signup sheet for holiday shifts, mandatory inservices and staff meeting time.
Hummm. Is the signup sheet a roll of toilet paper?
Had one place that had the sign up sheets in the bathroom and decided to use watered down fudge that I sucked into a syringe and squirted out a fictious name as a sign up. The sheets were removed from the bathroom by my next shift. Made sure to smudge some fudge on other parts of the sheets, too.
Hummm. Is the signup sheet a roll of toilet paper?
Had one place that had the sign up sheets in the bathroom and decided to use watered down fudge that I sucked into a syringe and squirted out a fictious name as a sign up. The sheets were removed from the bathroom by my next shift. Made sure to smudge some fudge on other parts of the sheets, too.
Our restroom has a bulletin board with info too. I actually think it's pretty effective because the same info can be up in other areas where I'm just zooming by so I don't notice or read them. Everyone makes a pit stop now & then, so posting info in the potty works fine for me. :cheers:
I don't have a problem with it, I am usually standing up with my back to it. On the way out I figure anything at waist height is either for children or midgets so I don't have to bend down to read it.
We are buried in multiple notices, reminders and all sorts of paperwork galore. I have to ask if TPTB really intend for us to be digesting their words of wisdom while sitting on the throne,but hey-it's not totally inappropriate if ya think about it! :lol2:
In addition to various postings and messages, we have our mailboxes IN the bathroom. I think that's gross.
I'm waiting for CE's to be printed on the toilet paper and meetings to be held in there. That would be the epitome of multi-tasking!
Totally disgusting. I am not going to let them infringe on what little private time I have. Even if it's 30 seconds, technically on their dime, sometimes it's the ONLY time I have. And I'm not going to let them control me that much.
In fact, I think I'll bring that up as part of our next contract negotiations. That and all emails to employees about stuff they think we should know about needs to be available from our home computers. Our place cites privacy, but criminy! Airline pilots have access to everything from any computer in the world. I do think the hospitals could do this as well.
For me, as a per diem worker, there are many things I miss because it's put on an email that is only available on a computer in the hospital. I'm certainly not going there just to read email.
Yes, this seems to be common. I've seen some of the most important postings for meetings, clinical tips, etc, posted right in the bathroom stall. I think they rightly presume that they have a captive audience and will get their message out.
NotReady4PrimeTime, RN
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Our management has the same habit. We asked in a staff meeting if we could have one propaganda-free bathroom, preferably the small one and they agreed. It lasted about a month and now we're back to being prodded with our failures again. (CRBSI, VAP and wound infection rates are what usually get posted in there.)