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[utlonghornsandy]

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Do you enter the contact isolation rooms during deliveries of meds in the morning(the daily po's). I finally convinced my boss today that i will not enter the airbourne isolation rooms, even if they say wear a mask on the door. I believe that i should not enter a contact isolation room b/c i don't know what disease the patient has. We have a drawer that we put the meds in that is in the room. If the nurse is in there, she can touch the patient then the drawer, without changing gloves, no one will see them. They have to tell us to enter the rooms b/c they are "considered" clean. I want to hear about other hospitals policies. I tried going to the infection control nurse and she told me nothing can be done( like put the medication elsewhere), b/c the drawers are "clean". Should i wear a gown when entering each contact isolation room? I will definetly wear gloves though.

 

[WVUPharm2007]

Where I work, we do not go anywhere near the patient rooms. We just drop all of the cart fills off in the nurses' station and let them sort it out.

 

[Glycerin]

Do you enter the contact isolation rooms during deliveries of meds in the morning(the daily po's). I finally convinced my boss today that i will not enter the airbourne isolation rooms, even if they say wear a mask on the door. I believe that i should not enter a contact isolation room b/c i don't know what disease the patient has. We have a drawer that we put the meds in that is in the room. If the nurse is in there, she can touch the patient then the drawer, without changing gloves, no one will see them. They have to tell us to enter the rooms b/c they are "considered" clean. I want to hear about other hospitals policies. I tried going to the infection control nurse and she told me nothing can be done( like put the medication elsewhere), b/c the drawers are "clean". Should i wear a gown when entering each contact isolation room? I will definetly wear gloves though.

I don't go into the isolation rooms at all. On most floors, we have a general med room for all meds, but on a couple of floors, med carts are in the actual rooms. When the room isn't an isolation room, of course we deliver the meds to the carts. But, I don't see the point in having to gown up/put on a mask/etc to go into an isolation room, when a nurse is constantly going in there. In this situation, I just inform the unit secretary or other nurses at the nurses' station that I am leaving the meds at their desk, or if I see the patient's nurse, I give the meds directly to her/him.

 

[utlonghornsandy]

The hospital i work at, the nurses are really mean to the pharmacy staff, so there is no good communication b/w us. So if i do something, like put the meds outside the door, they will call down complaining and say the meds are missing, even though they know exactly where they are. This time, it was my coworker that ratted us( those who don't go into the isolation room) out to our boss. So you don't even know who to trust at my hospital! I'm just going to gown up and put gloves on and deliver to the contact isolation room. But I will try to talk to the nurse though, to see if she/ he will take the drugs from me first.