Throw it on the floor?!

[justme01]

Do the CNA's at your facility throw everything on the floor even though they know it is not the proper procedure? I hate doing that! I'd like to put everything in trash bags and take the bags to the hopper like I should.

I hate carrying soiled linens and dirty briefs down the hall. If I carry the dirty things down the hall in my hands I have to wear my gloves (which should not be worn in the hall.) I think I should just tie two trash bags onto the bed whenever I enter a room and then take the bags with me whenever I leave the room.

Do you throw everything on the floor or use bags?

[duskyjewel]

Gonna be blunt here.... there is school and then there is real life. I use common sense about it, but I am a floor-thrower and will be for the forseeable future. What's my option? Bring the dirty linen container full of every other rooms' germs into the patient room? Nope. Wrestle with trash bags the consistency of saran wrap while trying to provide care? Nope. Put down a relatively clean and dry bed spread to put linens on while bathing a patient and changing their bed, then wrapping it all in that spread and taking it to the linen container? Yep.

[pfongk]

I never ever throw my linen on the floor. I've been working in aged care now as an AIN for over 10 years and I've worked in probably close to 100 facilities due to having worked in 3 different states and 2 different nursing agencies. (Agency, Agency, Nursing Home, Nursing Home).

We have always always had something similar to these, http://www.trolleysuppliers.com/151_115x_Laundry_trolley_3.jpg which we had to keep in the room with us.

[ComeTogether, LPN]

I .com/151_115x_Laundry_trolley_3.jpg[/url] which we had to keep in the room with us.

well that's sanitary

"No day but today"

[pfongk]

Actually, it's fairly common practice in Australia and the UK.

http://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/.../Management%20of%20Laundry%20Policy.doc

The linen bins have seperate lids on them and if someone is known to have an infection like MRSA or C.diff we have a seperate bin that goes next to their bed that has a dissolvable bag in an inpermiable bag so the laundry staff only have to remove the dissolvable bag and then place it in the machine on a foul wash.

We put the skip just inside the curtains if it's a shared room and just within arms reach if it's a private room. The linen goes straight into the appropriate coloured bag, with any pads or used cloths going straight into a white plastic bag which then goes into a covered bin that has a thick black garbage bag in it. These are then emptied a couple of times a shift, depending on how full they are. Anything with body fluids on it goes in a seperate skip and is taken to the laundry once 2/3 full.

[JDZ344]

It is very sanitary. The bins are not kept full to overflowing, and soiled linen is tied immediately and taken to the dirty linen room, so all that is in the bin, if anything, is reasonably clean linen from stripping discharged beds or when we change all the beds in the AM. Infectious patients get their very own bags which are disposed of straight away.

I think it's a great deal more sanitary then chucking linens on the floor, or, worse and that I had to correct someone last week, the soiled brief on the bedside table where the patient eats!

[Psha]

Roll of small trashbags with me at all times. That said, I STILL throw the trashbag on the floor- sometimes there is just no helping it.