Pet peeve

[Up2nogood RN]

So I had to float to a resp/tele floor last night and another nurse was trying to be helpful by drawing an am lab from a central line on one of my pts. Without gloves. It was perfect timing as I had just came in to check a blood sugar so I made a big production of putting gloves on just to hold the strip for the drop of blood. Oh and this is one of our union reps in a magnet hospital. Yikes is all I can say. I've also seen a nurse changing caps on a PICC without gloves. Now isn't one of the points of changing caps infection control?!?!?!

Pet peeves?

[Up2nogood RN, RN]

I do remember working as a cna on an alzheimers unit with 3 gloves total for a shift and 3 suppositories due. Oh and they all were incontinent.

I don't know why some people are getting so defensive about basic infection control, it's not a new concept.

[rnlately]

I have seen PCAs and nurses take finger sticks without gloves. I guess, I'm type A, cause I put on gloves when moving pts in bed (esp. after discovering all kinds of "nice" things in beds.

You never know what you are going to touch once you pull back the covers and reach for that draw sheet:lol2:

[Nurse SMS, MSN, RN]

Techs and nurses who talk over/around the patient during patient care about the patient, as if the patient cannot hear or understand....as in the telling of stories of or editorial commenting about the patient's bad behavior, bad condition, bad smell etc...it is unkind and without compassion and makes me crazy. Also techs who threaten the patients.... ie: "If you don't stop that I am going to make you clean this poopy mess up yourself!" to a patient who is confused, elderly, incontinent, etc.

[Hoozdo, ADN]

Messy med rooms drive me a little batty. You go to crush a pill, only to find that

both pill crushers have humongous residue from whatever was crushed before. Needle

caps all over the place, sticky counters, used alcohol pads all over. Please, clean

up after yourselves!

Messy patient rooms are not for me either. Please, it looks like you had a code in

here! The floor is not your garbage bag. I am not your cleaner.

[MinnieMomRN]

Family memebers who let their toddlers crawl around the hospital room. Then when you tell them that hospitals are probably the germiest of places and it's better keep them off the floor, they say "oh, she's fine. I'm watching her".

[nursemike, ASN, RN]

I do remember working as a cna on an alzheimers unit with 3 gloves total for a shift and 3 suppositories due. Oh and they all were incontinent.

I don't know why some people are getting so defensive about basic infection control, it's not a new concept.

Gloves are not infection control, they are personal protective devices. Sterile gloves are cleaner than washed hands. Non-sterile gloves are not.

[caliotter3]

Worst pet peeve is being subjected to the nurse coworker who comes to work in order to sleep through night shift. Hard to convince the CNAs to do their job when they giggle or scowl and point out the sleeping nurse as their mentor.

[belgarion]

Messy med rooms drive me a little batty. You go to crush a pill, only to find that

both pill crushers have humongous residue from whatever was crushed before. Needle

caps all over the place, sticky counters, used alcohol pads all over. Please, clean

up after yourselves!

Agree 110%. It also makes my teeth ache when I find a half dozen partial saline or Heparin vials scattered around. For crying out loud people, can't you finish one before you pop the cap on another? Also, on those rare occasions you actually EMPTY a vial, would it be too much trouble to actually throw it away? Sometimes I'm surprised they actuall make it to the sharps container with the used needles and syringes.