What do you do with a security guard who's too gung ho for the job? He's total stickler for parking permits, parking within the lines, and the like. He lets some hings go but not much. He really needs to chill out.
What do you do with Maintenance when they won't fix stuff after repeated requests?
How about with Upper Managers who won't back you up when you need stuff fixed for safety reasons?:devil:
What about nurses who follow you but won't call the doctor when it gets to be a human hour to call and take care of routine matters that you don't want to wake them for at 0400? :argue:
To err is human but if these same dodo birds do it again, I"m going to sic Maxine on them. She'll give 'em what for, huh?:chuckle
The CNA that's been working at the same nursing home for eleven years who refuses to wear gloves, even when changing soiled nappies and then attempting to touch other STAFF and PATIENTS. He claimed, whilst orientating me, the student, that we should wear gloves for these things but that he didn't need to...
The CCU nurse that wanders into the patient's room to give a routine, newly introduced medication without looking twice at the patient, who is suffering from a CO2 overload (diagnosed about 20 minutes later when another nurse called the doctor), is drowsy, difficult to rouse etc - and physically opens this patient's mouth - a pt who is otherwise competent - puts the pill in and pours water down her throat. Risk for choking and aspiration, anyway? & what about the failure to assess the patient? By the way, this pt ended up in ICU about an hour later.
I'm another one that gets all assessments and admission paperwork left for me.. on 3rd shift! How can a patient arrive at 3pm, only get meds listed and ordered, but no other paperwork is ever done?
Specializes in LTC/Rehab,Med/Surg, OB/GYN, Ortho, Neuro.
The CNA that's been working at the same nursing home for eleven years who refuses to wear gloves, even when changing soiled nappies and then attempting to touch other STAFF and PATIENTS. He claimed, whilst orientating me, the student, that we should wear gloves for these things but that he didn't need to....
How about the CNA that is being evaluated on peri-care by State, walks in to the isolation room w/o any PPE (C-diff, btw), and proceeds to clean the BM w/o gloves.
how about the dodo RN i work with who refuses to wear gloves while assisting during endoscopic procedures and has done so for 25 years... and the dodo doctors and dodo nurse manager who don't say anything to her!
her reasoning... "i haven't gotten anything bad yet". i gave her a whole bunch of literature on MRSA, VRE, the hepatitis family, HIV/AIDS, C-diff and STD's. she laughed at me and said gloves are impersonal.
sorry but i think anyone who graduated with a bachelor's in science from the university of north carolina should have the sense to wear gloves while handling specimens that came out of the human digestive tract.
You know, I'm pretty sure every hospital will have a policy regarding use of gloves as part of hand hygiene and will spell out when they are to be used. Look it up. If all these people are refusing to use them during any contact with body fluids, then they are violating policy and need to be counseled.
If you still don't know how a patient could have a STD infection of the digestive tract, google anal sex, oral sex, systemic STDs, whatever.
To spell it out, what I was really wondering was why you quoted me out of context. The question in question was specifically to the post above it, about the nurse assisting with endoscopies without wearing gloves.
To spell it out, what I was really wondering was why you quoted me out of context. The question in question was specifically to the post above it, about the nurse assisting with endoscopies without wearing gloves.
The discussion changed, as online discussions will, to a questioning of the possibility of STDs in the digestive tract.
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One nurse, reading a chart, very loudly asked across the nursing station, "How does a patient get an e. coli infection of the member?"