I was at work last night and the nurses were talking as if it was normal.
I love working in healthcare, but as you know accidents happen, like urine splashing on you/clothing, someone spitting on you or rushing in without gloves during an emergency.
I'm starting nursing school next year but seriously thinking its not for me.
They say, that all nurses get it? Is it true?
I wouldn't want to expose this to my family or other patients that why I practice good hygiene. Any insight?
I'm going to start a collection plate for a sarcasm font.
How? How are you going to pass around a collection plate through the internet. You should really think these things through better before you post them.
At the nursing home I worked at, unless the resident had loose stool we couldn't acquire a sample to take to the lab. At the time I thought it was SO dumb because this one resident had C Diff and she was a regular C Differ so she was isolated a whole 'nother week because the nurses wouldn't take a sample to lab to make sure she didn't have C Diff. So they changed the protocol and now if they have solid stool for 24 hours they can come out of isolation. It was just so ridiculous at the time.
ETA: I don't know if you were being sarcastic to the original response but I'm just sharing!
If you don't have loose stools or diearrea than you don't need to get tested. You come into contact with c. Diff all the time and don't even know it.
They can't even test solid fully formed stools for the pathogen
I hope you are not a nurse yet. Because you should know that.
Actually, they can test solid stools... I have had solid stool come back positive for C diff... My lab usually refuses solid stool, except per provider order...(this is often done related to immunosuppressed folks)...
How? How are you going to pass around a collection plate through the internet. You should really think these things through better before you post them.
We swabbed a restaurant table when I was in microbiology. It tested positive for c-diff. I think the zombie apocalypse is going to start from either a Walmart cart or a buffet restaurant.
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If you don't have loose stools or diearrea than you don't need to get tested. You come into contact with c. Diff all the time and don't even know it.
They can't even test solid fully formed stools for the pathogen
I hope you are not a nurse yet. Because you should know that.