MSDS and hand lotion

[tntrn]

At our staff meeting yesterday we were told that hand lotions can no longer be kept in our report room unless we have the corresponding information stored in our MSDS binder. Just how ridiculous are the rules and regs becoming? We have no scrub sink in our nurses' station, as it is, cannot have even a bottled water anywhere at the desk which therefore makes keeping ourselves properly hydrated a big issue and now our hand lotion is a hazardous material? The nursing shortage is being created by regs just like this because here's one more nurse who's just about had enough :angryfire

[tntrn, ASN, RN]

Bitty Baby Grower: Were our units designed by the same lame architects? Our new, "state of the art" unit is the worst designed place imaginable. We were asked for a floorplan, and in the end, it is my belief that the corporation had these (bad) plans laying around that they'd paid too much money for and doggone it, we're going to use them!

We have one nurse's station placed at approximately the 50 yard line. No staff phones anywhere but there, one ice machine, also at the 50. No scrub sinks at the nurse's station. Also no drinking fountain. The NICU has no drinking fountain, bathroom facility for the nurse who is often trapped there alone. We have one med room. You guessed it, on the 50. It's very easy to track 5 miles or more on a busy 8 hour shift, especially if you have patient rooms that are located at either goal line. One of our nurses wore a pedometer several times just to find out.

We do have some of the foam hand cleaners in every room now, but that has proven to be just as drying and damaging to my hands as the soap and water. I might try my own brand of that. This morning, my hands feel like sandpaper.

In the pursuit of promoting health among the populace, we destroy our own, and worse than that, the medical powers that be, require it. I think this bothers me as much as the actual physical negatives.

[mattsmom81]

Can anyone say "Communism has made its way into healthcare at last?" :angryfire

I've worked places where they tell you what kind of lotion to NOT use, and places that forbid bottled water or any other means of hydrating oneself at the nurses station. First, we can't go potty, take breaks, or eat UNLESS "our work is caught up" orrrrrrrrrrrr.........."we find another FREE nurse to cover for us"........now we are forbidden to use handlotion or drink water on duty at the nurses station??????????????

Well........this is what I think of that:

*%&$^@!#$*%^%*##&@!!! :angryfire :angryfire :angryfire

LOL! yes Renee...I agree...so much of this seems to be a strong arm attempt to control NURSES as a group, and direct/dictate to us us at every turn.

Sometimes I get the sense management is really frightened we will organize and rise up against them...like democracy against communism.

What we could accomplish ...if only we could unite....I dream. :)

[Gompers, BSN, RN]

We do have some of the foam hand cleaners in every room now, but that has proven to be just as drying and damaging to my hands as the soap and water. I might try my own brand of that. This morning, my hands feel like sandpaper.

Our unit uses an antibacterial hand gel from Richmond Labratories, called Stat-Rinse. If your hands are already broken down, then of course it will sting as it is alcohol-based. BUT if your hands are intact, it's actually really nice. There is an emmolliant in it that protects your hands. I use it much more often than washing with soap and water, and it's actually what our ID told us to do - like 1 hand wash to 10 "gel washes"

Maybe you guys could trial it? The same brand also makes a lotion, the one I referred to before, and it's pretty decent stuff.

[live4today, RN]

LOL! yes Renee...I agree...so much of this seems to be a strong arm attempt to control NURSES as a group, and direct/dictate to us us at every turn.

Sometimes I get the sense management is really frightened we will organize and rise up against them...like democracy against communism.

What we could accomplish ...if only we could unite....I dream. :)

Yeah, I can picture the organized nurses movement on the move in me head right now:uhoh21: ..........The nurses are coming, the nurses are coming....what will we do when the nurses rise and speak for themselves!!! NURSE POWER!!! Yahooooooooo!!! :rotfl:

[NancyJo]

Don't laugh but I did work at a place that instructed nurses on what type of panties to wear. I actually sat in a staff meeting and was lectured on the proper type of undies. I thought I was being as approiate as the presenter when I asked: 1. How this improved patient care? 2. Was the panty police going to be assigned daily or was it an honor system?

I too have sat through one of those staff meetings. What type of undies we are to wear is actually documented in our dress code/written policy. :rotfl: