Nurses (& the like) wearing scrubs outside the workplace.

dickydonkin

milliemonster wrote: »

No we don't, they went out with the dark ages when mercury thermometers were banned in hospitals, most hospitals now use tympanic thermometers

So you cannot get infections from placing items in your ear?

You also failed to respond to my other point where I referred to 'non theatre nurses' changing dressings on a patient following surgery.

shebangs

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heath480

I was a Nurse for 37years,as a Student Nurse in the 1960s we were never allowed away from the hospital in our uniform (big London teaching hospital).As the years passed the standards have deteriorated beyond belief,long hair,nail polish,jewelery etc,all these things have crept in with Nurses.

My last job before I retired was in a local hospice,the rules were the same as when I trained,I loved it,we had to change out of our uniform,keep hair tied back,no earrings,a wedding band only,etc.etc.the younger Nurses really disliked the rules and the turnover of Staff was very high.

Nurses should not be out in uniform full stop.

Nara

I've been a dental nurse for 13 years and boy have things changed over the years!!

We now wear scrubs and aren't allowed out of the surgery in them and we cannot eat while wearing them. We also have seperate shoes to wear.

While it is a pain in the !!!! getting changed 4+ times a day it only takes a couple of mins each time.
The thing I struggle with is all the extra sterlizing we are doing for the instruments and cross infection between patients. If you work in a busy practice with patients booked one after the other with no time inbetween it does get stressful, my boss is now considering hiring someone 'just' to scrub up all the stuff or buying lots more instruments so we can let them pile up until lunchtime when we have time to clean them all! Either way it all costs money.

Personally I find it ironic when i watch a TV show such as 'One born every minute ' and see the midwives eating and drinking in their scrubs then sticking their hands up someone's private bits! Seems our dentistry cross infection rules are more strict then nurses etc which I find strange.
Yes we come in close contact with the general public but in not such an invasive way as hospital staff at least not in general practice.

When we do surgery such as Implants etc we wear disposable scrubs over our scrubs! and gown out the whole surgery,
yet how many people do you hear about who have died through an infection they caught while in hospital and how many in a dentist?

horror36

milliemonster wrote: »

Staff should not be smoking outside as all hospital grounds are no smoking and it is about time trusts laid down the law on this on staff AND VISITORS who constantly flout the rules.

Not true, there are designated areas, well there are at my local, Warwick Hospital, whenever i've visited theres always been at least one staff member under the shelter smoking away, and what really annoys me is theres a smoking shelter right near the main entrance which u have to walk past unless u walk in the road, so if anyones smoking u have to walk through a cloud of smoke.... and not only in Warwick Hospital, seen in Birminghams Womens Hospital where patients are standing outside right next to NO SMOKING signs smoking.

Andy_L

mumps wrote: »

I am surprised people are saying nurses are on £18k for a 66 hrs week. An old colleague left to train as a nurse and qualified as a nurse 18 months ago. She has told me with unsocial hours payments and the odd shift on overtime she is earning about double that figure for fewer hours.

The starting salary for a nurse is about £21k so £18k seems unlikely, unless it includes student nurses or health care assistants, and impossible for a 66hour week