Meds. off floor taste YUMMY!

button2cute · Sep 9, 2005

Hello, Everyone

I am laughing about this whole issues. At least two people were honest and truthful of the uncleaniness medication. Nurse are not the only one that practice dirty habits. Ever been in a surgical unit? or run a code? or er? or on a truly busy floor? Well, I am here to share with you about the uncleaniness in the surgial and cardiac unit. I told the physician that is the wrong and he told e to "my *bleeping* business and I bring in the money and pts for you. I cannot wait till I become a NP and I can tell them it is wrong and you have to get this place together.

Have a great evening and coorifice

Buttons

MichaelLooney · Sep 9, 2005

So, just curious as to what everyone else thinks about this. I've seen several nurses drop meds on the floor in front of their patients, pick them up, and give them anyways. Is this common? I asked one nurse about it and she said that it saves the hospital money... but I was taught that's not proper practice. So what do you think about this and what do you do when you drop meds?
~Crystal

Well, at the facility I work at, they'll chew your ass apart if you do that...but then I work in a long term care facility where the facility doens't pay for the meds anyway

But, really, I think that's pretty disgusting when you think about what's on the floor and everything. Its been drilled into us so much about how contaminated the floor is, and everything that touches the floor then becomes contaminated, I don't even understand how we can breath the air we do without dying from the way they talk!

Bobbie West · Sep 9, 2005

The patient doesn't get charged if we drop a pill.
The hospital just eats it . . so to speak. :)
steph

Just out of curiosity, we cultured the bottom of nurse's shoes, you wouldn't beleive how many things were detected. The lab stated multiple micorganims and did not do C&S.

Jo Dirt · Sep 9, 2005

I dropped a couple of pills on the floor in LTC one time in front of one of my patient and before I could dispose of it (because I thought it was the right thing to do) the little man stopped me.

"That floor ain't going to hurt them pills!" he said.

Oh well...if you say so mister. He took them and that was that.

Technically, you aren't even supposed to give them if they touch the med cart. Book nursing and real world in front of the state inspectors nursing are two very different things.

ilovelilac · Sep 9, 2005

:uhoh21: about 8 years or so ago the teaching hospital i worked for decided to test an isolation, room which had been cleaned by housekeeping, after a patient with VRE was discharged. they found samples just about everywhere they tested -- even on the drapery in the highest corner of the room (perhaps they thought that would be their control!) ever since then i look at the world at large in a very different way! :uhoh21:

SmilingBluEyes · Sep 9, 2005

I dropped a couple of pills on the floor in LTC one time in front of one of my patient and before I could dispose of it (because I thought it was the right thing to do) the little man stopped me.
"That floor ain't going to hurt them pills!" he said.
Oh well...if you say so mister. He took them and that was that.
Technically, you aren't even supposed to give them if they touch the med cart. Book nursing and real world in front of the state inspectors nursing are two very different things.

real world nursing should still be SAFE practice. Again, giving meds off the floor is NOT safe practice. It's not about performing for an inspector. I am appalled by some answers here, frankly. I really am naive---I never thought people did this.

allnurses Guide · Sep 9, 2005

Just out of curiosity, we cultured the bottom of nurse's shoes, you wouldn't beleive how many things were detected. The lab stated multiple micorganims and did not do C&S.

This is very true . . . . housekeeping may mop the floors very well but WE WALK ALL OVER THOSE CLEAN FLOORS and our shoes are not clean.

Great point!!

steph

amykobus · Sep 9, 2005

WHEN EVER POSSIBLE, I TRY TO PUT MYSELF IN THE PATIENTS SHOES. IF I WERE IN THE HOSPITAL, WOULD I WANT THE NURSE TO GIVE ME A PILL SHE DROPPED ON THE FLOOR? DEFINITELY NOT. I ALSO TRY NOT TO TOUCH THE STRAW BEFKORE I PUT IT IN THE CUP

So, just curious as to what everyone else thinks about this. I've seen several nurses drop meds on the floor in front of their patients, pick them up, and give them anyways. Is this common? I asked one nurse about it and she said that it saves the hospital money... but I was taught that's not proper practice. So what do you think about this and what do you do when you drop meds?
~Crystal

krisssy · Sep 9, 2005

I was working as a psych nurse in a psych hospital. I saw a little old man pull a dirty plastic cup out ot the garbage can, take the cup to the water fountain and drink it. I was new, so I mentioned it to my mentor. She said, "Oh he always does that-you'd be amazed at what else he does.????????????

ilovelilac · Sep 9, 2005

I was working as a psych nurse in a psych hospital. I saw a little old man pull a dirty plastic cup out ot the garbage can, take the cup to the water fountain and drink it. I was new, so I mentioned it to my mentor. She said, "Oh he always does that-you'd be amazed at what else he does.????????????

a little off the general subject, but perhaps relevant to the above post -- i was working on a Genitourinary floor, and we had a man who apparently had another psychiatric diagnosis which was not available on admission. about 4pm in the afternoon he started screaming for all he was worth that his bleeding from his member. as it turned out, he had been masterbating with a foley catheter inserted in his member, which, as he so globally expressed, caused his member to bleed. ya just never know.....

krisssy · Sep 9, 2005

I had a patient complain to me that the day before, she had a treatment from a Dr. who left the blood and bloody sheets all over the floor. The patient told the nurse, and the nurse made a face and ignored her. It was left that way until the next shift???????????????? and there were two patients in the room. Lucky I wasn't the patient!

QTBabyNurse, BSN, RN · Sep 9, 2005

Absolutely NOT!