any cnas ever catch anything from their residents/patients

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I'm a CNA student and we're actually going over infection infect control and the instructor was telling us how hand washing breaks the chain of infection. Great, but she was saying how easily things spread for ex she said how in this resident had conjunctivitis and next thing you know the whole unit did and that this resulted from worker bad hand hygiene. Not saying YOU were careless but has anyone caught something a resident had. Esp something more serious like mrsa or something.

Only thing that worries me is bringing some I feel infection home to my baby. Of course doing something wrong and hurting a resident would be another worry.

Just a bit of trivia - the oral ivermectin they give us staff & pts for scabies is also used by veteranarians (sp?) for dogs to treat parasites and heartworm. Interesting!!!

We used a lotion in a tube. I didn't work those days but I guess they had to shower every single resident after using the lotion. All their belongings were bagged up for three days, too.

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We used a lotion in a tube. I didn't work those days but I guess they had to shower every single resident after using the lotion. All their belongings were bagged up for three days, too.
Oh yeah - Qwell shampoo/wash! That was used too.
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We used a lotion in a tube. I didn't work those days but I guess they had to shower every single resident after using the lotion. All their belongings were bagged up for three days, too.

Been there done that. Always go home itching then check myself for rashes for dayyys and dayyys. Usually get freaked out if i even find a pimple. My weakness is bugs *whowawaalalalalal*

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