First time on the floor I already violated infection control, is this the end?

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Does anyone here have a problem like this? Do you guys think they will fire me because of this? Need help!

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

No one knows if you will be fired, but are you a nurse or a student? How did you violate infection control? Some things are a lot more serious than others, but if you are a student and that was your first time on the floor you are going to make mistakes, the seriousness of the mistake will determine the consequence.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

Like how bad are we talking here? Did you go into a MRSA room with no isolation or did you puke in an open chest?

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.
Like how bad are we talking here? Did you go into a MRSA room with no isolation or did you puke in an open chest?

Ok that just had me laughing out loud and I got a weird look from my husband.

Seriously I am tempted to add that quote to my sig line. I don't know why I find it so funny.

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Like how bad are we talking here? Did you go into a MRSA room with no isolation or did you puke in an open chest?

Or did you drop a Junior Mint into an open surgical incision?

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I put a equipment on the dirty sink, but its not a sterile equipment, I picked up some tourniquet on the floor and put i on the patient table. They told me thats considered a contaminated stuff. I'm not in a Isolation room, I work as Dialysis Nurse.. I'm a nurse not a student nurse...

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They didn't report me. My preceptor just gave me a handout about infection control huhu. But will never know..ouchy! haler! ballin!

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Specializes in Emergency Dept. Trauma. Pediatrics.

I think you are safe and just need to brush up on the handout they gave you :|

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
Like how bad are we talking here? Did you go into a MRSA room with no isolation or did you puke in an open chest?

Or did you drop a Junior Mint into an open surgical incision?

Seinfeld ftw!

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Specializes in RN, Retired.

Consider the floor in a hospital to be equal to an open sewer. Urine, poo, blood, who knows what get tracked from room to room. Anything that touches the floor is contaminated.

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They gave you a handout?

[sarcasm] You're in big trouble now!!! [/sarcasm] :jester:

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Maybe they'll make her sit in the comfy chair later.

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