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

A flu jab? People don’t hAve to look - it hardly takes a long time

Might as well tell the full story. I work in the cafe. Often nurses/delivery people/others will pop their head in and ask is mr/mrs X in here before they go knocking. Mr X was indeed there and nurse told him not to worry, she would do it there. Other customers complained so I politely asked the nurse to use a side room (literally 5 metres away). I was called a jobs worth

I've been an insulin injecting diabetic since I was 10 (29 years) and wouldn't dream of doing my injection in view of other people.

I did when I was a child and made a waitress faint so I learnt not to get the needles out in public again.

The nurse misjudged. Sounds like a sheltered housing community, presumably of older folk if she was concerned about ‘taking time for them to leave the cafe’ and I do think she didn’t think hard enough about their dignity and the wishes of the other residents who were eating.

When you go to give blood, voluntarily, and you expect to see needles etc, you’re still separated into a cubicle for finger prick tests etc and it’s well away from the food & drinks station.

The area you get your vaccines in isn’t sterile it’s not a aseptic/sterile procedure so as long as hands are clean & globes on and needle etc sterile you’d hope the table was clean if she was putting anything She needed on it. Nurses do vaccines etc in peoples homes all the time and sterile procedures. It’s not something I would do as it’s not really appropriate and I’m not sure the circumstances in which I would need to vaccinate anyone in a cafe in the first place. Seems a bit of a waste of nurses time. It wouldn’t bother me if I saw it though. Nurse so the norm for me, similar with insulin etc but you do have to consider others as well as yourself in life!

A cafe in a hospital?

Or a cafe next to a drs/hospital?

Or a cafe no where near a hospital?

@MargeSimpson00

Might as well tell the full story. I work in the cafe. Often nurses/delivery people/others will pop their head in and ask is mr/mrs X in here before they go knocking. Mr X was indeed there and nurse told him not to worry, she would do it there. Other customers complained so I politely asked the nurse to use a side room (literally 5 metres away). I was called a jobs worth

Absolutely not a jobsworth, did the nurse call you that? You did the right thing imo.

So it's a cafe that also does jabs? I don't really understand the setup here.

But honestly I wouldn't care. It's just an injection.

Of course I wouldn't mind!

@MargeSimpson00

Might as well tell the full story. I work in the cafe. Often nurses/delivery people/others will pop their head in and ask is mr/mrs X in here before they go knocking. Mr X was indeed there and nurse told him not to worry, she would do it there. Other customers complained so I politely asked the nurse to use a side room (literally 5 metres away). I was called a jobs worth

You did the right thing. The nurse was totally in the wrong here.

🤣🤣 sorry I COMPLETELY misread that I thought you said they were doing an insulin injection 🙈

I think you were in the right and not a jobsworth at all. Some people faint at the sight of needles, some have severe needle phobia. (If someone needs insulin before eating it’s a different matter, but the person I know who has to inject insulin is very discreet and you wouldn’t notice). A jab is much more visible.

If the person opposite faints or has a panic attack the nurse then has an extra problem on their hands so I think you were being perfectly reasonable.

So it’s likely OAP complex where residents hang out? They deserve much privacy as anyone else? I know under pressure but presume everyone else is not stabbed on their front door steps and she has time move few metres inside. Not sure the Surgery would be that impressed

I wouldn’t care but I’ve always gone to the toilet to inject myself. Not with heroin though.

you do have to consider others as well as yourself in life!

This is the key. It was for the nurse’s convenience that she wanted to do it at the table - quick jab, off she goes - but she didn’t consider the other customers and clients and that’s bad practice,

A communal cafe is not a place for a medical appointment.

Something similar happened at my school this year, pharmacists came in (paid by school) walked into everyone’s offices/classrooms and have flu vaccine to any adult who wanted it there and then! Felt a bit odd

OP you were right, the nurse was wrong. The nurse was very unprofessional!

I don't think anything wrong was done until the nurse insulted you, that was uncalled for. Trying to save the (elderly?) patient the fuss of moving is fine, other cafe patrons speaking up if they found it a bit much around their food is fine, you asking the nurse to please use the side room is fine, nurse then calling you a jobsworth was unfair.

It's not 'gross', it's just that it sounds unhygienic, she's breakign the skin, everything has to be sterile, an eating place is not.

Totally inappropriate. A cafe is not the time or the place.

Bit weird but nothing gross about it at all.

How is it gross?

I'm needle phobic and this would make me heave. Totally inappropriate for all involved.

I think the nurse was wrong to say she'd do it in the cafe and definitely wrong to call you a jobsworth