Published Jul 1, 2010
Thet Khaing
2 Posts
After feeding the patient from the isolation room, how the food tray will be done?
(a) send directly to the kitchen
(b) wash them and send back to the kitchen
© duble bagged and put them in the garbage
CoffeemateCNA
903 Posts
What kind of dishes are they? If they are disposable, there's obviously no reason to send them back to the kitchen.
And there is no way I'd be washing any dishes. If I wanted to work in dietary, I would have applied to dietary. The kitchen staff can keep their yucky rags and floral-scented dish soap to themselves.
juliaann
634 Posts
Our isolation trays go back on the tray cart last, just before the tray cart goes back to the kitchen, where everything is washed immediately.
LocoStrange
31 Posts
We just put it on the tray carts
JDZ344
837 Posts
Ours just go back to the kitchen with the rest to be washed there. There is no need for any special cleaning (unless, as once happened to me, the patient pukes on the tray- gag!).
Dorali, BSN, LPN, RN
471 Posts
We put ours in red bags and put them back on the cart.
The kitchen has been serving on styrofoam lately and we don't take any more dishes in there than necessary. Like the tray and hats, they stay out in hall.
tlawsoncna
We handle them like other resident's trays. They've got signs on the door before we enter their rooms to take standard contact precautions. I use gloves to pick up trays. But I feel sorry for the isolated residents.
I had one who was isolated for at least two to three weeks. One night, I saw her standing at the door. I felt so bad for her. I walked over to her. She had C-Diff. I asked her if she was all right. She said yes. I wish I could've done something more. I wished I had some magazines to give to her to read. She told me she was bored that night. I felt so bad when I dressed in the gown and gloves to help her to the bathroom. It's terrible when someone's in isolation.
Shirt
83 Posts
Kitchen crew generally picks it up (in the hospital at least)