Choking Hazard

Nurses General Nursing

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Today at Wrongway Regional Medical Center, Joint Commission Surveyors ruled that personal bottles of hand sanitizer are a choking hazard.

But worry not:

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No kidding.

Ever hear of such a thing?

Choking hazard? Every patient room I've seen at any hospital with more than 4 beds in their ER (Yes, John C Fremont has a 4 bed ER) has a computer in every room. Let's not forget the old fashion EKGs, IV pumps etc...

26 letters in the alphabet. 10 key + symbols.

God forbid someone chokes on the space bar.

There's enough keys on a keyboard to choke 50+ people :o

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

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Hmmmm....what to do about those curos caps. Prevent infection or prevent choking? WHAT DO I DO?

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Specializes in ambulant care.

"Just fake news!" :greyalien:

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Specializes in Travel, Home Health, Med-Surg.

Maybe if patients families did not bring every member of their family into visit, including the toddlers who crawl all over the floor, or bed etc this would not be problem.

JC just needs to find something to complain about or they will be out of a job, time for them to go, they get more ridiculous every year!

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Specializes in NICU.

Soon nurses wont be allowed ; choking hazard. (according to mock survey) Wait did I get it wrong?Or is it.......they afraid the nurses will choke them ?!Duh , I can neither confirm , nor deny.

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Dude!!! I totally forgot to reply thanks to you! Plain Jane is sitting. Needs a carb rebuild :'(

But right now I'm selling 2 cars so that'll let me focus on my bikes a bit more

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Well, I heard tale that one solution administrators are considering is that all visitors, including Therapy Dogs, are to be trained in the event a patient swallows a cap!

I believe there are Service Dogs who specialize in that area.

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"Just fake news!"

Yeah, Elfriede, you caught me.

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We once had a patient choke on eggs and actually die. Darn those dysphagia diets! Should we ban food? And what about another patient that removed the fentanyl patch and ate it? We should definitely ban medical patches, too.

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On second thought, just shut the hospital down.:sarcastic:

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Choking hazard? Every patient room I've seen at any hospital with more than 4 beds in their ER (Yes, John C Fremont has a 4 bed ER) has a computer in every room. Let's not forget the old fashion EKGs, IV pumps etc...

26 letters in the alphabet. 10 key + symbols.

God forbid someone chokes on the space bar.

There's enough keys on a keyboard to choke 50+ people :o

I seriously laughed out loud when I got to the spacebar comment! I got some weird looks and now the psych patients think I'm responding to internal stimuli! OOPS.

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).

Hey wow, Psych BSN RN- you just joined on this date and are blessing me with your posts!

Welcome to AN.com!

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