So I had my first shadowing shift as a home carer today. The woman I was shadowing clearly didn't want me there for a number of reasons (I had been given the wrong address and she hadn't told the office I hadn't arrived when I phoned them to query where she was, trying to get me to go home halfway through the shift even after missing the first call, leaving me to walk two miles to a call while she had her lunch, she's a driver I'm not, not showing me where various essential items were kept etc).
While the above was obviously not ideal I understand she is busy and wanted to get to all of her clients on time, especially as a few of them were time critical because of various medicines they needed.
The thing that really worried me though is that not once did I see her wash her hands. She used gloves, but was changing continence pads for one person and then giving tablets to the next. If nothing else the gloves are very sweaty and it's been very very hot today so her hands must have been sweating.
I don't want to be a snitch before I've even started properly but I'm a bit concerned about her hand hygiene (as well as her doing various things like bed baths without getting explicit consent)