Skills test--Where do they have you put used linens/towels during a step?

ColtsMom · Dec 4, 2008

I did mine in High Point a couple weeks ago. They are supposed to have a dirty linen hamper in the room where you can put dirty linens. I would not put ANYTHING on the floor. I was told that's a big no no. But there should be 1 dirty linen hamper for sheets and such and 1 dirty linen hamper for wet items like wash cloths from bed bath etc. The tester should go through the room with you and show you where everything should go. Good luck!!

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Dec 5, 2008

For your test I would use a small trash bag.

In the real world you'll just throw them on the floor. lol.

yousoldtheworld · Dec 5, 2008

mmhmm. and if you're doing bedmaking, you can roll the dirty linens down to the foot of the bed until you're finished, or at least you can here.

Pauligirl · Dec 5, 2008

Yeah, in the real world we throw it all on the floor!:chuckle

If it's a super big mess I usually roll the linen cart into the room. Or get a linen bag and throw it all in the bag which is on the floor. :eek:

escherner · Dec 5, 2008

I don't know why this linen thing is throwing me off so much. Keeping it at the bottom of the bed is apparently a no no in NC. Oh, how I will long for the rolling hamper like I saw in the videos. Rolling hamper--Makes sense--

thanks for all of your help!

Ellen

escherner · Dec 5, 2008

For your test I would use a small trash bag.
In the real world you'll just throw them on the floor. lol.

Would you actually put the linens "in" the trash bag, or just pile it on the floor, on top of the trash bag?

yousoldtheworld · Dec 5, 2008

I guess the important thing in the test is that you indicate the proper place to put it.

If they don't have the room set up with a hamper, you can just state "and now I would place the dirty linens in a hamper"

If they do have one in the room, just make sure it is in reach before you begin to make the bed.

It's little things like that that are the hardest to remember and the most stressful! I remember!

yousoldtheworld · Dec 5, 2008

And, just for the record, in real life there isn't always a hamper in the room.

In the nursing homes I've worked, you have a trash and linen hamper in the hall that you can wheel around to outside of the room you're working in.

In the hospital, we actually had a hamper in each room.

So learn the proper way for the test, but you'll probably never do it just that way again, haha.

L3Janit0r37 · Dec 7, 2008

We use hampers with signs saying "soiled linen" here that you can roll around. The hamper is usually in the hall between two rooms, or in the dirty core. What i see nurses, cnas and techs do is just strip the bed and go slam dunk it into one of these hampers in the hall, (or bring the hamper with you).

Or just put them in a trash bag, but don't throw it away, then find where they store dirty linen.

fuzzywuzzy, CNA · Dec 7, 2008

Would you actually put the linens "in" the trash bag, or just pile it on the floor, on top of the trash bag?

in it. then you can just grab the bag as you leave. Plus when you take the laundry out if you have poopy washcloths or something they won't smell up the whole hallway.

MyHrt1967 · Dec 11, 2008

you will need to place them in the hamper provided for them... place nothing I repeat nothing on the floor!