If you were in a cafe having lunch...

[MargeSimpson00]

Would you mind someone at your table having an injection whilst sitting there?

1. Person being injected is not in your party
2. Not insulin or anything immediately life saving, a vaccination

YANBU- wouldn't mind
YABU- it's gross

@PinkSparklyPussyCat

I take my pill in the evening so that doesn't affect meetings as I wouldn't be in one at that time. I have however left a meeting to get painkillers, why wouldn't I? I'm not waiting until the end of the meeting to start to feel better.

So you left the meeting to take them? Obviously that's fine. I'm saying I don't think taking medication in a meeting is appropriate. If I needed to take a paracetamol I'd excuse myself and take it in private

Not sure what taking pills in meetings has to do with a healthcare professional performing a non-emergency medical procedure in a café really.

As it stands on the meeting and pills thing entirely depends on the nature of the meeting and the drugs being taken.

@Comedycook Not all of us have time to leave a meeting every time we need to make a medical adjustment and as a diabetic you need to make a lot. I’m not missing out on important meeting content just because my blood sugar is going high, and I’m not waiting for it to go higher by waiting for the next break. It adds up and could lead to a substantial impact on either your career or your health.

[quote Trisolaris]@Comedycook Not all of us have time to leave a meeting every time we need to make a medical adjustment and as a diabetic you need to make a lot. I’m not missing out on important meeting content just because my blood sugar is going high, and I’m not waiting for it to go higher by waiting for the next break. It adds up and could lead to a substantial impact on either your career or your health.[/quote]
Look no one wants to see you end up in a medical emergency so do what you have to do. In a cafe though, there is no reason you cannot excuse yourself and pop to the loo to do it is there?

@Trisolaris checking blood sugar and using an insulin pen really isn't the same as a nurse administering a flu vaccine. I bet there have been people doing it in cafés all the time around you and you won't even have noticed.

So you left the meeting to take them? Obviously that's fine. I'm saying I don't think taking medication in a meeting is appropriate. If I needed to take a paracetamol I'd excuse myself and take it in private

Had they been in my bag I'd have taken them in the meeting. I've taken painkillers during Teams meetings before when I'm at home.

I have an injection that I take for diabetes but it isn't insulin. I have to take it to keep my blood sugars stable. If I'm out, I don't really have much choice but to take it when I'm out. I'm discreet and don't advertise I'm doing it but sometimes people notice.

Why medicalise it though, why not normalise it, its an injection, that's all.

Because it's a medical procedure

@Eleganz That was a response to a particular post and not a comment on the flu vaccine scenario in the OP

@RiverSkater

Nurse concerned about getting task done than patient or people around them.

Usually there are questions you ask etc. it's about patient confidentiality too. You don't just stick the needle in and walk away. What if patient had a turn?

I would report them.

How long do you think the nurse waits if they are doing the vaccination in their home? How long do you wait if you're having it done in a clinic? Or in a pharacy?

@Comedycook Yes there is, it’s unhygienic. The same reason I wouldn’t expect anyone to breastfeed in the toilets.

@ComedyCook
I never have and never will inject in a toilet. No need.

[quote RoastedTurnip]@ComedyCook
I never have and never will inject in a toilet. No need. [/quote]
Good for you!

I faint at the sight of needles ( dreadful phobia ) so no I would not be happy !!!

How long do you think the nurse waits if they are doing the vaccination in their home? How long do you wait if you're having it done in a clinic? Or in a pharacy?

Don't you have to wait after a flu jab? I've never had a flu jab but I had to wait for after the covid jab which was a very long 15 minutes! If I ever have another one I'll be off immediately as waiting just made me feel worse.

Usually if your injecting yourself, like I do for medical reasons, I have to be in sterile environment. I have to clean all surfaces, wash hands etc and depose of my needles in special boxes that get collected. Can not understand who would be injecting in a cafe which was legal.

@MargeSimpson00

It was a flu jab. Patient was in the cafe and nurse came in, told them not to bother getting up they would do it at the table. Other customers complained they didn't want to see that whilst eating

I wouldn't particularly like that, but I suppose it might upset some people. DD and I went to get our flu jab at the end of September at local health centre. It was a special flu jab clinic. I was given mine behind a screen in the entrance area. There was a query about whether DD could have hers done, so nurse went to check with GP whilst we both waited outside. Nurse appeared a few minutes later brandishing the syringe and gave my daughter her jab outside. Strange scenario lol.

@Kittysummer

Usually if your injecting yourself, like I do for medical reasons, I have to be in sterile environment. I have to clean all surfaces, wash hands etc and depose of my needles in special boxes that get collected. Can not understand who would be injecting in a cafe which was legal.

What makes your environment sterile?

No I wouldn't mind.

If the person wasn't a member of your party how do you know it's not insulin? Could be a epi-pen?

Sorry seen your answer 're the nurse after my post, I can't understand people being put off by a simple injection you can hardly see the syringe when it is the hand and the nurses have done it before you can blink.

Wouldn't bother me at all, but then I know how over stretched and how much pressure community nurses are under. Waiting for the person to go back to their accommodation would have delayed the nurse.

I would hate that. I hate needles and injections and would probably pass out or throw up

Unprofessional behaviour by the "nurse" totally. Especially after people complained and you asked her to use a side room. Her retort uncalled for and rude and shows she's not following the professional code of conduct, if she was in fact a registered nurse which i doubt. But that's what you get for using non - professionals to do this type of job, with minimal training or supervision in the community.

@RoastedTurnip

Another diabetic here. To those saying you'd find it gross to see, ut probably have and not known. It is such a teeny tiny needle (because we're doing those injections 4+times per day) you'd need to be right next to me (and STARING) to see anything worth seeing. If I'm with 'new' people I ask if they are ok with needles, but I still wouldn't go to the loo, I'd be even more discrete and assume they'd look away!

I think that a flu jab is administered from a standard syringe though, isn’t it? I’ve seen my friend inject insulin a million times and it’s a quick stab with what looks like a pen into a little pinch of abdominal flesh, down at table level and usually so discreet that you wouldn’t even realise she was baring skin. A flu Jab would involve rolling up a sleeve and the syringe would be very visible.

Just pointing out the difference- personally I couldn’t care less if someone was having a flu jab in front of me in a cafe and I think that with Covid having jabs has become even more run-of-the -mill than it used to be.

However I think that probably the nurse in OP’s scenario forgot that injections are more normal to her than to the general public.