WannabeFlight

When I walk into patient rooms in the FP, you can instantly distinguish smells of alcohol, marijuana, meth and etc... Kinda lets me know what I may be dealing with. But I agree, its rapidly taking over and its VERY scary!

I was trained to never recap a needle by hand, you scoop the cap with the needle off of a surface to get cap back on, completely covering the needle. Then discarding the needle and syringe. Learned that after compliance training when a co-worker was stuck with a needle from a Hep C + patient. Scary Day!!! I am sorry to hear that happened to you. I have seen everything she had to go through and it definately does not seem fun.

I have been a Medical Assistant in a Hosiptal Out-Patient Facility for several years while awaiting entrance to Nursing School. But I can sympathize with what you are feeling. I work among staff of CNA's, RMA's, LPN's and RN's. And those behaviors are not specific to one level of training. It is evident throughout all levels, even some MD's act that way. I feel that it is a bad combination of reasons that this happens. One reason is personal choices. One is administrative choices. And another is just that they know no better. Administratively that behavior should not be permitted and personally people learn from the people they are around during training (in most cases, I have witnessed that). In many years of waitressing the old saying was "If you have time to lean, you have time to clean." :wink2: I personally adhere to that mentality that there is always something to be doing... And find that asking people who sit and do nothing to help you often rubs off on them. You cant change what they do, but you can change the presence that your actions have.