How do you hang tape on a stethoscope?

So I know this is a dumb question, but I live and breathe by my tape and am forever fumbling to get it out of the pockets. I see so many of my colleagues with rolls hanging off their stethoscopes, and cannot for the life of me figure out how to do it! I would ask them, but I don't want to look so pathetic. :icon_roll Thanks for your help!

[hatingthewaiting]

I popped the rubber tube off where it attaches to the metal ear piece, slid the rubber tube thru the hole in the tape roll, and then reattached it, took under 30 seconds.

[pshs_2000]

I took the bell/diaphragm off at the rubber tube and slide on the tape and then put it back together.

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

Actually this practice is now frowned upon b/c it is an infection risk. Think about it....... it is hanging around.......often near your mouth or when you bend over a patient near theirs and goes from pt room to pt room unprotected. the best way IMO to carry tape is in a clean zip lock bag in your pocket or in or on a clipboard or in a fanny pack. Do not carry in pockets without a zip lock bag b/c it collects lint and other debris. This tape is most frequently used to secure IV sites and secure tubing for intermittent IV medications and the INS also frowns upon the practice.

[Tait, MSN, RN]

I went to a practice I saw back in nursing school. Hemostat clipped to my scrub top...how3ever I am thinking that practice over since then it hangs near all the linens etc of each patient.

I couldn't stand the extra weight on my stethoscope anymore.

Tait

[ktwlpn, LPN]

Actually this practice is now frowned upon b/c it is an infection risk. Think about it....... it is hanging around.......often near your mouth or when you bend over a patient near theirs and goes from pt room to pt room unprotected. the best way IMO to carry tape is in a clean zip lock bag in your pocket or in or on a clipboard or in a fanny pack. Do not carry in pockets without a zip lock bag b/c it collects lint and other debris. This tape is most frequently used to secure IV sites and secure tubing for intermittent IV medications and the INS also frowns upon the practice.

Killjoy.......

But you are right-I never considered how it hangs close to the mouth when you are bent over performing a task-and then youmay lay your scope down-who knows in what? yuech -and pick up more crap to dangle at your lips...

[Roy Fokker, BSN, RN]

I couldn't stand the extra weight on my stethoscope anymore.

Ditto that. To the point that I purchased a stethoscope clip rather than have the blessed thing dragging around my neck all the time...

I do the Hemostat clipped to scrub top too.

Added benefit? The tape roll is now a handy spot to hang my trauma shears...

cheers,

[iluvivt, BSN, RN]

I can not even tell you how much disgusting tape I see nurses trying to use. You really should not even tear it and stick it on a siderail b/f use. I fought for 2 years to get our IV start kits back,,,,,SUCCESS. I now secure with the sterile tape provided in there and carry my transpore on a clean basket or on my cart. I think the ISMP issued an alert about this practice last year...or someone did b/c i saw it and remeber thinking it was about time!!!!!!

[jjensen]

I put tape in my pocket...

[mcknis]

i hang it on the 'ears' of my scope, but do see 1-2 in the hosp who hang it on their hemostats off of their scrub tops.

[kellykelly]

I slip it over the earpiece, takes no time or special skill. Can't say as it's ever in any remote danger of touching my mouth. Until a law or policy is passed saying I can't keep my tape there, that's where it's staying. How many times have you found an IV pulling at the insertion site with only one thin tegaderm holding it in place? I need tape where it's handy.

[mscsrjhm]

I can't survive without cargo pants. I also carry a small, clean spec bag in my pocket and keep a small roll of tape in it. Use it to carry meds after pulling them from the accudose or pyxis. This way I don't have to make frequent trips to the med room (except for narcs).