Nurses, do you immediately take bath after duty?

[ms.pebbles]

Say you had 8hours duty in the hospital and you're really exhausted coz of walking around the hospital to attend to the needs of the patients, now when you get home, do you immediately clean yourself up or take a few minutes rest first? and why? thanks:redpinkhe:redpinkhe:redpinkhe:redpinkhe:redpinkhe

[Flying ICU RN]

I do everytime. Whether I work a 4hr, 8hr, or 12hr shift.. I get home; leave my shoes at the door and take a shower.

Decontamination shower unit joke aside for a moment, this is actually my long term practice,..isolate the shoes!

And there is nothing quite like a new pair of shoes, to attract that C-Diff assignment on the first day wearing them.

[JulieCVICURN, BSN, RN]

I used to shower religiously when I got home. Now, it just depends on how bad my night is. If I have clean patients (read: not isolation) and I don't have to bathe them or clean up poop, I'll wait until I wake up to shower. If it's a gross, sweaty, isolation and dirty poopy night, yeah, I shower.

[O'SheaRN]

When I worked at a nursing home, I showered immediately after I got home. I also left my shoes on the front porch.

[April, RN, BSN, RN]

I used to always shower as soon as I got home from work, washed my scrubs separately from my other laundry, left my shoes outside. I've gotten more lax about it now, especially since I've lived in the city for the past few years. My neighbors might think I'm weird if I took my scrubs and shoes off in the hallway

[nesu0204]

I'm still a student but after my med surg clinicals I take off my shoes before I get into my car, put on flip flops that I keep in my car and put the work shoes in a plastic bag and they go in the trunk. They never get into my home. When its time for clinical, I just get the bag out of the trunk, put on socks and the shoes go on the ground outside the car and leave my flip flops on the driver's side for when I come out of the hospital.

[rn4ever?]

Absolutely YES!

[C-lion]

I was at the grocery the other day around 4:30 or five, and noticed a few nurses there in their scrubs. The next day at the gym, same time, I noticed the same thing. I couldn't help but think about what kind of germs were on their scrubs, and stayed pretty far away from them all.

[GreyGull]

The next day at the gym, same time, I noticed the same thing.

This is one of the reasons why you wear shower slippers in the locker room at the gym.

And rinse them well before putting them back in your bag.

[Flo., BSN, RN]

My unit does not accept pts with the nasty germs so I just come home slip into my pjs and veg out. But even on medical floors I don't go too crazy unless it was a messy day. I figure these germs are everywhere as is and I sure wash my hands enough.

[carolmaccas66, BSN, RN]

Absolutely. I find a hot shower relaxes me to help me sleep (sometimes it can wake me up too). I can't stand the awful smells of the hospital on me, or feeling sweaty before I go to bed, especially in summer (and it gets ++ hot here in Australia). Even if I'm tired I have to shower and I hate going to bed with smelly feet as well!

[KarmaComesAround]

First thing I do is strip down, and I take a hot shower, then get in my pjs and relax. Then, I feel clean enough to veg out on sofa or bed, eat, watch some tv, then play around with my kids/the dogs.

Love a previous poster's outdoor disinfectant or decontamination device/apparatus, whatever....

[Doza]

Just putting up a BIG red flag here....judging from the topics that this original poster has been putting up here at allnurses, I'm thinking they are a "troll".

Think before spending too much time answering the questions.

haha, couldn't resist looking at "her" profile :)