Hole In My Glove!

[Joe V]

Nurses try very hard to practice safe and effective infection control measures. You've just finished with your patient, start to take off the disposable gloves, and there it is, a hole. It's as if you can hear it taunt you as it says, "sometimes meconium just happens". How many times has this happened to you?

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[nursej22, MSN, RN]

When I was a nurses aide in 1976, we used finger cots for suppositories, and that was pretty much the only PPE. And we rewashed enema buckets and soaked them in an antiseptic solution. 

[Cclm, LPN]

I don't freak out at all. I just wash my hands. 

[Kristi Van Winkle, BSN, RN]

"Sometimes meconium happens."  HAHAHA!! I'm stealing that.