Okay so I love watching fear factor and was taking to a fellow nurse friend of mine and we wanted to know how many of you could get through these "nursing stunts":
1) 100 patients, 10 meds apiece, 1hour to complete... no errors
2) Eating the hospital food, with NO condiments (gasp!)
3) Licking the hospital floor... (yummy right) and yes you can disinfect your mouth after.
4) Working a 24hour shift in the ICU and ER... NO SLEEP
5) Transfering a 250 pound patient from bed to chair 10 times, no help
Me personally, I guess I'd try it but I would not be the fear factor champ!
I remember my instructors as well as some older nurses tell me of a day when they cleaned poop without gloves. I was told they did this as late as the 1980's and that gloves are a really recent thing as a result of universal precautions.
Yep, it was a rule NOT to use gloves in nursing school for fear of offending the patient. Only sterile ones were available for the docs.
After graduation I worked peds in the ID floor and had all kinds of fun bugs to play with- no gloves-ever. After we got our first AIDS patient we got gloves for his room, only, when handling blood.
In 1994 we were told to use standard precautions for everyone when handling blood or bloody fluids. still on your own with poop and rota, cdiff, etc. Most of the nurses still started IV's without gloves, some used them only on big kids, but not on babies. At that point one of the LPNs thought we really should use gloves to change diapers with diarrhea, in fact, in an adeal world we would have gloves in every room, (GASP!). Never happened because 1)we all thought she was nuts, and 2) imagine what all those gloves would cost.
In 1996 we had one box of gloves in most rooms, no size choice. No enforcement or directive from TPTB, although the ID docs encouraged glove use. For the most part we depended on handwashing unless dealing with bloody fluids. I must say that group were handwashing queens though. They had sinks in every room, and in the hall. The hall sinks were the most used, and I haven't seen any since leaving that unit. I wonder if hall sinks would cause a measurable decrease in nosocomial infections on most units.
How about filling a large bucket with GI bleed or C-Diff and, with no gloves or face mask, reach your hands in and grab out as many dirty used tampons as you can in two minutes without gagging, throwing up, or turning your head away from the bucket?
How about filling a large bucket with GI bleed or C-Diff and, with no gloves or face mask, reach your hands in and grab out as many dirty used tampons as you can in two minutes without gagging, throwing up, or turning your head away from the bucket?
Afterwards, you can try to eat a bowl of chicken gumbo.
Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.
I watched a autopsy and ate a kitkat.....am I fear factor material.......
I could do #2 through #5, but my favorite would be watching autopsies or looking at a 3 day old dead body[complete with maggots] while eating a tuna fish sandwich.
Specializes in ICU, PICC Nurse, Nursing Supervisor.
or even worse go bobbing for tampons .. you are allowed to use nose plugs. No need for peanuts in your nose.
How about filling a large bucket with GI bleed or C-Diff and, with no gloves or face mask, reach your hands in and grab out as many dirty used tampons as you can in two minutes without gagging, throwing up, or turning your head away from the bucket?
Specializes in ICU, ED, Transport, Home Care, Mgmnt.
Remove the little electrodes for a 12-lead that have been on a 450lbs unwashed patient for an hour (and are now extra gooey and hidden under folds) with only your teeth - fastest wins! HA! :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
And you can't use your hands to move body parts around/out of the way!
beochicken
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snorting out all the maggots from a homeless persons sacral decubitus without disinfexting your nose afterwards