One cannot even use the restroom in peace at my place of employment. Every employee bathroom, nurse's station, break room, copy room, pt's rooms, hallway, elevator, cafeteria, locker rooms etc; are flooded with cutesy reminders and hospital news of some sort. Whatever happend to putting in an email or maybe one or two designated areas?
I just about had it yesterday when sitting on the toilet and not one spot of the four walls had an empty spot. All sorts of reminders, press ganey mantras and reprimands posted everywhere. What put me over the edge was a small reminder taped to the toilet roll dispenser!
Then, as I was was washing my hands in the lower left corner of the mirror was a cutesy little reminder........."Did you sign the sheet acknowledging you read the latest issue of Potty Talk".
It is sickening! Sorry, just feeling particularly crabby today and I am home
Btw, Did you wash your hands? Did you check your emails? Did you finish your dot Edu's, Did you smile to all your guests today? Did you sign up for extra shifts? Did you note all your orders?
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We have to carry phones. Patients, doctors, etc. are instructed to call us for any thing. I have also carried an arrhythmia alert beeper.
Pretty frustrating when those are going off while your taking a speed pee.
Talk about multi-tasking!
I designed the pilot for unit phones.
Since breaks should be uninterrupted, staff were encouraged to hand off their phones if going off the unit (including lavatory). I'm sure you'll wash your hands, but will you be disinfecting the phone too?
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We call it "potty training" where I'm at...
That's because it's all **** anyway.
I used to work for a hospital that posted all sorts of announcements in the loo, including on the back of the stall doors at eye level. I guess they didn't want us to miss a single exciting moment of the Sigma IV pump in-service on August 3rd, or forget to wash our hands before leaving the restroom.
Please tell me this is only at my place of employment? Sometimes I wonder if they names it potty talk due to all the cursing that goes inside the bathroom due to the overwhelming amount of news, rather. LOL
At least it would appear they rotate yours. Every time I pee, I've had to stare at the same memo for the last 2 years warning me not to call the blood bank for Osteocel until the surgeon asks for it because it costs $5,000 a vial and if it thaws and isn't used, it's trashed. Monday morning, I'm ripping that sucker off the stall door.
Our bathroom always has some kind of notice up. As does our break room.
Since I can't really leave the hospital when I'm on my "lunch" break, it would be nice if I could at least pee w/o being bombarded with work stuff. But alas, this is too much to ask. My companion phone however, does not come to the bathroom with me.
Our one TINY staff bathroom is blessedly free of the newsletters, etc that you all are talking about... There is generally some puzzles or a book for those that need inspiration.
I sincerely hope none of the managers from my hospital see this thread...
Please tell me this is only at my place of employment? Sometimes I wonder if they names it potty talk due to all the cursing that goes inside the bathroom due to the overwhelming amount of news, rather. LOL
Nope....I worked at many places where notes were in the BR... mostly because nobody listened anywhere else, and wouldn't bother to take it upon themselves to do what they're supposed to do..... sometimes a captive audience is necessary for mgmt to get their points across. I didn't like it either- and my answer is to not hire people who won't follow policy to begin with
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We usually have one or two notices posted on the back of our bathroom door. Often they are announcements of the time and date of the next unit meeting. My favorite was the flyer advertising free pap smears offered to hospital employees that week during breaks. I can't think of anything I'd less like to do on a break than have a freaking pap smear. Nothing like holding your pee for six hours and then getting socked with that message when you finally get a moment to relieve yourself.
It's a wonder they didn't have the pap equipment on the floor. You could run in get your pap and run out. Then again you probably would be paged while your feet were in stirrups.
It's a wonder they didn't have the pap equipment on the floor. You could run in get your pap and run out. Then again you probably would be paged while your feet were in stirrups.
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We call it "Flush Flash" and its a newsletter that's up every two weeks. It even has a little cute saying... "Everybody knows because everybody goes."
I wish I was joking. *facepalm*