Drinks at the nursing station is most definitely a heated topic. Has anyone found a solution to this issue that both nurses and management are happy with?
At the hospital i'm at, we have kind of a decent sized backroom at the nursing stations; a lot like this picture
For closed drinks; what about putting the drinks in a stackable sealed container like this?
Stackable so they can be kept neatly on the side or corner of the back room and this way the drinking bottles themselves will never come in direct contact with anything "contaminated." If management is worried about the inside of the containers becoming contaminated through communal/repeated use, the solution for that could be using the disinfection wipes before a nurse puts her/his drink in there at the start of their shift.
I keep my closed drink in my bag right next to me. I whip it out, take a swig, and back in the bag it goes. I work nights also. Of course I make sure the coast is clear before I grab it!
The associate argument is confusing to me. I have lawyer friends who refer to their professional peers as "this is my associate, so and so..." While I've heard cashiers called associates too; I actually picture someone referring to a peer or someone they are associated with at work. So definitely not a negative connotation across the board.
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The associate argument is confusing to me. I have lawyer friends who refer to their professional peers as "this is my associate, so and so..." While I've heard cashiers called associates too; I actually picture someone referring to a peer or someone they are associated with at work. So definitely not a negative connotation across the board.
The associate argument is confusing to me. I have lawyer friends who refer to their professional peers as "this is my associate, so and so..." While I've heard cashiers called associates too; I actually picture someone referring to a peer or someone they are associated with at work. So definitely not a negative connotation across the board.
The article states that the term ASSOCIATE "meanings vary considerably, depending on which industry or economic sector you look at, and can confuse you by implying a relationship between them that doesn't exist in some cases but does exist in others."
So it is acceptable in the culture of Law to refer their professional peers as "this is my associate, so and so..." However, I have not heard a fellow nurse yet refer another nurse as an associate. Poster Slhengy may be using that term in their hospital.
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I know, right? Make it go away, Far. í ½í¸œ