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.
Our place does it too. Sometimes it's informative, occasionally someone posts a funny in there, and sometimes it's the holiday schedule sign-up. I don't really have a strong opinion about it one way or the other.
One thing I saw in there recently was a pic of a girl baby in a cute pink hat and a onesie that said "Find a cure for breast cancer before I grow boobs."
I work at two hospitals...one uses "on the John" training, the other doesn't. Now that I work in an area where I go to multiple floors, I've found that some floors use the bathroom more for inservices than others. Must be up to the managers or something.
FYI stuff is ok, but not stuff you have to sign. Ick!! I feel bad for the educator that has to take that sign-in sheet off the wall and file it! Who knows whats on it??
Yep, it's been this way for years and years, in every facility I've ever worked. I like to think of it as "potty training" - but it's as effective as sleeping with a book under my pillow, IMO.
I've never been one to read while on the toilet at home - why would I do such at work?
I do not mind it but when something is way out of date they do not remove it plus is looks so bad to see paper curled up and torn. I think I will pull some down tonight if it is still up there.
At least they do not put sign-ups in there.
It would be nice if they at least place a board that has a protective pexiglass covering and keep up with the postings.
So.. I personally think it is tacky. Tacky Tacky Tacky. If we went to the bathroom of a Forbes 500 company would they have ANYTHING taped to the door of a bathroom stall? If I went to IBM tomorrow, would there be a memo from Gates detailing fourth quarter profits? Would GM have postings regarding sales of heavy duty trucks? C'mon. Give us a break. We are professionals and should be treated accordingly. Make important info available elsewhere and leave the bathroom to its one and only purpose. Also.. do you think there is anything posted in the CEOs bathroom???
Ah, but the companies you mention actually have employees who take lunch breaks. I don't mind notices in the bathrooms. It's the only place I have a minute to read them. There is so much "junk" in the nurses' station that I don't read any of it. And there is one zone in the hospital that is very informative. I read things in their bathroom that the rest of the hospital doesn't find out for weeks. However, the best solution would be to do as a previous poster said. If there's something management wants us to know, there ought to be a zone website we can access from home. There doesn't need to be confidential information there; confidential information could be posted to an e-mail address that we can access from home. The hospitals are eventually going to have to get with the times. Hospital e-mail that can be accessed only on the premises is no better than posting in the bathroom.
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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.
Am I off base to feel offended by these postings?
We get that too. In ours, it includes the signup sheet for holiday shifts, mandatory inservices and staff meeting time. I tend to be of the thought that my BR time is mine. Maybe I choose to read what's on the wall and maybe I don't. In any case, I don't think they can hold me to it.
I agree that it's unprofessional and infringes upon my private time.
I don't mind. It's just something to read if I'm going to be in the bathroom for an extended period of time.
I guess it's better than obtaining a newspaper and obviously letting people know that you'll be awhile in the commode...maybe it would be nice to see a sign up holiday list somewhere... I think it is odd, but it also shows that most times, staff (me included) barely listen to half of the nonsense they send around, so I guess they figured they will get our attention one way or another. My facility hasn't gotten around to this, yet, but if one of my administrators participates in this forum, I'm sure we'll see it in a few weeks...:chuckle
Specializes in Community Health, Med-Surg, Home Health.
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.
Now, that is original. Maybe if they resort to this in my hospital, I'll be sure to take a Hershey bar to the throne to create art.:chuckle:lol2:
I'm offended by many other things such poor RN to patient ratios, family member's demands, budetary cuts, etc. That there's a bulletin board in the one place we all wind up in our busy day doesn't bother me a bit. It's not an excutive washroom. I'm fine with it.
Is it tacky? Probably. Am I bothered and offended? No. I do prefer email communcation better though. But I don't check my email every day. So if you want me to know something, tell me in person (which isn't always possible on off shifts) or put it up in the bathroom where I'm surely going to see it.
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Our place does it too. Sometimes it's informative, occasionally someone posts a funny in there, and sometimes it's the holiday schedule sign-up. I don't really have a strong opinion about it one way or the other.
One thing I saw in there recently was a pic of a girl baby in a cute pink hat and a onesie that said "Find a cure for breast cancer before I grow boobs."