chloefiesta

Maybe this whole pandemic is causing a lot of paranoia, but does this warrant a call to employee health..... I had a patient’s foley leak out bloody urine on her blanket after her hysterectomy and she had like anal cancer (squamous cell carcinoma) and bladder cancer I think. I accidentally grabbed my phone after touching her soaked blanket with my gloves on and put it back in my scrub pocket. A few minutes later, while eating my lunch, out of habit, I was using that same soiled phone while eating lunch. A piece of my noodle fell on my index finger that was touched my phone etc and that piece of noodle flipped back and touched some portion of the rest of the pasta. I threw away the one that touched my finger but the rest I continued to eat…am I being super paranoid or is this something I need to worry about? Obviously I need to be more careful next time, but this whole pandemic is making me overthink everything.

I have worked at my hospital for a year and I recently applied for a job internally to a different department (day surgery/pacu). I was told to meet with the director/manager of the unit but I received a tour of the unit and an interview with the charge nurse of the unit. I did not meet with the manager/director of the unit at the end of the day and after a week, they offered me the job without having me speak or meet with her. HR was not surprised when I mentioned all of this to them. Should I be concerned or does this happen often?