Any Nurses who trained in 1989 or before......I have a question for you..

[recall]

When you washed/helped to wash someone, did you wear gloves ?

I just happened to get some poo on my hand ( don't ask ) and I washed it off, but I couldn't get rid of the smell. I said to my friend "This takes me back, we used to use washing powder to get rid of the smell, Melena was the worse " She looked at me horrified. Was it just me should I have been wearing gloves ????? I remember wearing them when I was being assessed administering an enema, so I think we used to wear them for procedures, and blood stuff, but not for poo or sick etc.

Please put my mind at rest, I feel all wrong now

chrisst yes , there was even a pts smoking room on antenatal ward [shock[

I can clearly remember the excitment when streptokinase started to be used in MI pts !

And there were so many more dense hemiplegia stroke pts then wasn't there? Obvioulsy still around but no where near as many.
When someone was admitted with a stroke and unconscious they were as good as dead.

One of the reasons I applied to be a nurse was Angels. Telly programme with nurses.
Nurses smoked while writing their charts up. I thought that was the life for me.

One of the actors from Angels was actually doing her Nurse training a few sets ahead of me, it was the red haired girl. It was a bit strange seeing her out and about in the uniform after watching her on telly.

We had a smoking room in our hospital until four or five years ago. I started training in 2005 and it was there for most if not all of my training.

I remember smoking during handover!
There was one smoking and one non-smoking day room for patients.
DSis trained at Tommy's, I remember staying with her in Gassiot as a teenager. The view and the noise were incredible.
DSis found it snobby, (obviously every flat or set is different) which put me off.
She still loved it though.

My MIL trained at Tommy's and she was a refugee from Belgium at the start of WWII so it can't have been that snobby then.

Kreecher 10 years ago when I started work in Belgium I went to collect blood from the blood bank. The technician who handed me the blood had a lighted cigar in the other hand!

Nurses regularly smoked in the kitchen of a cardiac ward (whilst writing notes) where smoking for the patients was strictly forbidden.

I know no-one has posted on this for a month but I've had the thread saved up to read when I had a moment (sigh, they're few and far between) - anyway, have just asked MNHQ if they would move the thread out of Chat and somewhere it won't disappear, it's too brilliant to be lost.