Winner of the creepiest nursing commercial ever....!

merlee · Oct 1, 2010

This has been on quite a while. I had home care pts who would beg their docs to write letters to insurance companies to approve at least one new cath every day!!

Pretty disgusting to think that all of these people were rinsing and reusing their caths for weeks on end.

caliotter3 · Oct 1, 2010

I had to do this for a client and asked why and if it was ok, infection control wise. Didn't make sense to me. I actually did some research on the practice and as I recall, it is supposed to be relatively of no consequence when it comes to UTI rates. I still do not believe it is good practice, I don't care what anyone says.

One2gofst · Oct 1, 2010

That commercial is on all the time here.

As far as UTIs go, unless there is already an infection, everything going through there is sterile and I don't see a real problem.

diamondmeadows, BSN, RN · Oct 1, 2010

To be honest, I don't think it's creepy. I don't think I would want to reuse catheters either. :)

NamasteNurse, BSN, RN · Oct 1, 2010

Heard of this and agree with One2go, we learned about it in nursing school, it's not an issue at all. They are only using it on themselves and it's cleaned every time. Think about those tubes to insert lady partsl creams when you have an infection, you use it for a week, but clean it every day. Toothbrushes definitely have more germs on them than a catheter being used on an uninfected person!

blondy2061h, MSN, RN · Oct 1, 2010

I can't believe up until recently patients had to use the same catheters time after time after time. Hello UTIs!

blondy2061h, MSN, RN · Oct 1, 2010

Heard of this and agree with One2go, we learned about it in nursing school, it's not an issue at all. They are only using it on themselves and it's cleaned every time. Think about those tubes to insert lady partsl creams when you have an infection, you use it for a week, but clean it every day. Toothbrushes definitely have more germs on them than a catheter being used on an uninfected person!

Neither your lady parts nor your mouth is sterile. Your bladder is.

blondy2061h, MSN, RN · Oct 1, 2010

That commercial is on all the time here.
As far as UTIs go, unless there is already an infection, everything going through there is sterile and I don't see a real problem.

Once the package is open and the catheter touched, it's not sterile.

allnurses Guide · Oct 1, 2010

What I hate about that commercial is that it's deceptive. It implies that a medical supply company has some sort of control over what supplies will be paid for by Medicaid or an insurance company. Once Medicaid/Medi-Cal/her insurance co approved it her catheters could be supplied by quite a few different companies in my state, anyway.

For pure annoyance value, I vote for the adult pertussis vaccine one with the coughing child and "you may think the safest place for your baby is in your arms" -- don't know why that woman just irritates me, plus they play it every 12 minutes on some channels.

TDCHIM · Oct 1, 2010

I'm with you, @nursel56 - that whooping cough commercial drives me nuts. The worst (national) nursing commercial I can recall is a horrible Johnson & Johnson nursing campaign commercial from a couple years ago that had the jingle: "You're a Nurse...You Make a Diiiference." It was incredibly schmaltzy and played on all the usual nursing tropes to the nth degree, so it drove me nuts.

Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN · Oct 1, 2010

Holly strikes again!

We've discussed her here before, and this is actually the older commercial. She's in a new one that features a better hairdo.

And then there's THIS little gem...

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