Nurses smoking e cigs at the station?

[richardgecko]

I've been seeing this a lot lately and I think it's unprofessional. Even saw a pregnant nurse doing it. Are nurses allowed to use them in your facility?

[rnpjop]

Wow, I shouldn't be shocked at this I guess, but I am shocked! How unprofessional and I can't believe that anyone could get by w/ this. My kids and I were at a museum in DC last summer and someone had one. I think it is ridiculous and the people that do this are trying (and apparently succeeding) to find a loophole in the rules.

[Not_A_Hat_Person, RN]

A CNA was walking around the unit recently vaping. Blew my mind. The problem I've been finding with ecigs is that people think they're acceptable just because they smell better than smoke. My husband does this. Every time he does, I see red. No amount of nagging makes him stop, either. They still have chemicals, they're still second hand "smoke", and no, it will never be okay to do in the hospital or in my house thankyouverymuch.

How does that look to the patients?

[Here.I.Stand, BSN, RN]

1.) Where do you work that one has time for that??

2.) If it's just water vapor, why doesn't it smell like steam??

3.) It looks totally unprofessional (not that I've actually seen it done at a nursing station.)

[APRN., DNP, RN, APRN, NP]

When I first graduated from nursing school, the smoker nurses used to sit the ash trays on the table in the hallway outside of the patient rooms and smoke while they charted.

The head nurse, who wore her white cap and attended nursing school back when you weren't allowed to date while attend nursing school was the worst offender.

Stinky, stinky stinky.

At a different hospital, one of the docs would come up to the nurses station and lay his cigar on the edge of the counter while he wrote orders after doing rounds.

Boy are things different now.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

1.) Where do you work that one has time for that??

I can only speak for my workplace. Back when nurses were vaping at the nurses station, they were puffing away while doing something work-related (charting, reviewing labs, on the phone with physicians, etc). However, I have not seen any nurses vaping inside the facility since 2011.

[bell1962]

I reemember when the smoke in the nurses' lounge was so heavy you could cut it with a knife. Much better today!

[laKrugRN]

HAHAHA! I can just picture this...no WAY!