barclaykitteh

I'd love to be able to change at work but we don't have a proper locker room or anywhere in the bathroom to put stuff. Not putting my bag on the C Diff/MRSA floor and taking it home if I won't wear my shoes in the house.

I'm guilty of staking out my "spot" at work depending on which rooms I have. If I'm at the back of the unit and the only nurse back there I will block off the computer with the call bell right next to it. Or if I have the bed jumper right across from a certain computer I want that computer so I can see in the room. I don't mind family members using the patient's bathroom if the patient isn't using it or is male and using the urinal for I&O's. Hate trying to do them when everyone else is either peeing in or removing the hat. Oh and crazy family members who either refuse to let the patient talk or who want you to do things the wrong way. I had a family member repeatedly tell me that condom caths shouldn't be fitted and that I needed to get an XL and tape it on with silk tape for it to stay. No wonder the poor guy had skin breakdown! And she kept stopping the tube feeds because he was "aspirating" at 20ml/hr with HOB up 60 degrees.