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I keep getting Rick Rolled by a coworker of mine...this is war
 
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Handwashing, far better than freaking out over what gloves have touched what....
 
It's Friday, Friday, gotta get down on Friday!
 
1 of my friends posted on Facebook saying that he got in a car accident 10 mins ago and got transported to the hospital and he almost died.

I'm sorry but if you are updating your status 10 mins after your accident you didn't almost die.
 
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firefite said:
1 of my friends posted on Facebook saying that he got in a car accident 10 mins ago and got transported to the hospital and he almost died.

I'm sorry but if you are updating your status 10 mins after your accident you didn't almost die.
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Just sent off an email to find out more information about a USDA home loan. From the looks of it, I may be able to get approved once I get my cards caught up. Hopefully I get approved, a mortgage on a 100k home is much cheaper than the rent for this apartment. And there's some nice houses in the desert for under 100k.
 
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If I recall correctly, you (firefite) work for AMR? That's why I bought 'em, cause that's what AMR used during my ride along, but in Santa Clara County. Same thing... never had a problem with them except getting hot so I use a size larger than what fits me better.

I pretty much do the same thing as you too with cleaning the ambulance. I always wipe down the gurney, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, handle bars of the gurney, door handle, etc.

I agree with usalsfyre though. This may sound lame, but I still wear gloves cause of Asch's phenomenon, lol. ;) As I was telling other people, I am tired of being labeled as a bad EMT, my company pays me to put gloves on, and other than wasting my companies money with them buying a bunch of gloves, I don't see it doing any harm to me or my patients. I still focus on hand washing and cleaning the stuff we use. Can't believe that we have some EMTs who won't touch a patient without gloves, but won't change the gurney sheet, and will touch the clipboard they touched with gloves after touching the patient, but they'll touch the clipboard without glove, and say things like "I don't know what I would do if I gave my family MRSA". Yoo wery smort EMT n noble, yoo thuper hewo.
 
Aprz said:
I am tired of being labeled as a bad. EMT
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If people are actually accusing you of that, I would guess its not just your glove use habits.
 
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bigbaldguy said:
Whats your method. gloves off to push cart then glove back on to continue patient care?
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Glove for blood and body fluid. Bare hands for the rest. You realize whatever was on that glove you put on the stretcher and whatever was on that stretcher was put on the patient, yeah?
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Aprz said:
If I recall correctly, you (firefite) work for AMR? That's why I bought 'em, cause that's what AMR used during my ride along, but in Santa Clara County. Same thing... never had a problem with them except getting hot so I use a size larger than what fits me better.

I pretty much do the same thing as you too with cleaning the ambulance. I always wipe down the gurney, stethoscope, sphygmomanometer, handle bars of the gurney, door handle, etc.

I agree with usalsfyre though. This may sound lame, but I still wear gloves cause of Asch's phenomenon, lol. ;) As I was telling other people, I am tired of being labeled as a bad EMT, my company pays me to put gloves on, and other than wasting my companies money with them buying a bunch of gloves, I don't see it doing any harm to me or my patients. I still focus on hand washing and cleaning the stuff we use. Can't believe that we have some EMTs who won't touch a patient without gloves, but won't change the gurney sheet, and will touch the clipboard they touched with gloves after touching the patient, but they'll touch the clipboard without glove, and say things like "I don't know what I would do if I gave my family MRSA". Yoo wery smort EMT n noble, yoo thuper hewo.
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If their family gets MRSA it probably wouldnt be from them considering the vast majority of the population has it on their skin right this very second.

I wonder how some people exist in the real world. Those people you just exchanged money with then touched your face right after are the same people who are your potential patients. We don't get our patients from some exiled sick island. They're the general population you mull around in every day.

I wonder do these people wear gloves going to the grocery store

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exodus said:
Just sent off an email to find out more information about a USDA home loan. From the looks of it, I may be able to get approved once I get my cards caught up. Hopefully I get approved, a mortgage on a 100k home is much cheaper than the rent for this apartment. And there's some nice houses in the desert for under 100k.
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Buying my house with a USDA loan. I close on Friday. PM me if you need ANY info on the process.
 
NVRob said:
BBG that's odd that you rip gloves on the lift into the unit. I've never had a problem with it. I can't remember the name of the gloves we use but I'll look tomorrow and get back to you. I've never had the problem you're talking about with our gloves.
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I don't blow out gloves every time but often enough to make it an issue. I also tend to rip gloves when lifting people off the ground. It may be that since I'm generally the biggest guy on crew I tend to take more of the load during lifts.
 
Are you wearing too tight of a glove? I find that strange too, and I've used some :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty gloves!
 
JPINFV said:
In the vast majority of situations? Yep, gloves on when dealing with the patient. Gloves aren't on until at the patient. Except for what is necessary for transfering the patient to the gurney, gloves off. Move patient over, sheet, seatbelts, gloves off, lift, move to ambulance, load...

Similarly, during the transport, gloves on for the exam, V/S, etc most of the time. Between those times, gloves off for going through the packet, starting paperwork, etc.

I tend to go through a decent amount of gloves for even the most basic IFT calls. Once the patient is packaged, it's needless cross contamination for the vast majority of cases.

Do you drive with used gloves on?
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I don't drive with gloves on but while driving I'm not inches from the patient and concerned that I might have to touch the patient for some reason. While you're pushing the cot it would seem to me there's always the potential that a change in patient status or even an accidentally cot tip might require patient contact. I just wouldn't be comfortable not having gloves on anytime there is a reasonable potential for patient contact.

Beyond that,
I'm pretty sure if a sup saw me pushing the cot with no gloves on and a patient in it there would be hell to pay. I do change gloves out more often then anyone I ride with. My hand washing borders on the compulsive, and included in my wipe-down after every transport are the cot handles, door handles and cabinet handles.
 
I have a phone interview tomorrow for a tissue procurement technician position. Wish me luck.
 
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