Whats the last thing you stole from a hospital?

[VentMedic]

Oh poor venty...I have read many of the threads here and like I said, while I could be wrong, I can't recall ever seeing someone talk about stealing supplies from a hospital to stock a personal bag. Nor have I seen any posts from the OP of this thread saying that. Since it appears that you have read posts like that so often...mind sharing? Basically, either put up, or shut up. Aside from that, while I don't doubt that equipment goes missing from hospitals (taken by both EMS and hospital workers) I doubt that "much" goes into personal bags (that's not to say that some doesn't), and honestly, using a few posts from an online forum (if those posts even exist) that represents a minuscule percentage of all EMS workers as your justification for saying that...not smart. Perhaps you shouldn't have tried to use non-existent posts as proof.

Seriously? You've read all the many threads on the subject?

I only bring up the hospital dominion mentioned because...well...it was the last example before my original post, and the one I referenced. And really, I don't care about the arrangement; doesn't bother me. Apparently it does bother you greatly though, which is why I'm suggesting that you take your infinite knowledge of all medical things and superior wisdom and discuss with the hospital how terribly wrong they are doing things. Mind if I stop the sarcasm now, it's making me sick. Seriously though, like it or not, the situation dominion listed isn't rare or unusual; either get used to it, stop whining, or do something to fix the problem.

I know more than I ever wanted to about budgets and procurement unfortunately.

By your posts it seems you know very little about managment or budgets and I seriously doubt if you have been in EMS for very long either. I don't know what this obsession you have with dominion is, but again, if he feels his hospital needs some direction with inventory control, I can provide some information. But, I don't believe that is the issue and he probably doesn't want you to continue to meddle in his situation. I only made a reply to him about the cost of pulse ox probes and you somehow have distorted that one post into something else for your own agenda whatever that might be.

You need to examine what your own issues are here with dominion before you continue to attack me. It is as if you are daring me to stir something up for him at his hospital or employer. However, that is not how it works in the business world of any type. I will not offer information unless invited to do so and preferrably with a confirmation from someone at a significant level of management at his hospital. Get some commonsense here and enough with the nonsense obsession you have with me and dominion.

 

[triemal04]

Seriously? You've read all the many threads on the subject?

By your posts it seems you know very little about managment or budgets and I seriously doubt if you have been in EMS for very long either. I don't know what this obsession you have with dominion is, but again, if he feels his hospital needs some direction with inventory control, I can provide some information. But, I don't believe that is the issue and he probably doesn't want you to continue to meddle in his situation. I only made a reply to him about the cost of pulse ox probes and you somehow have distorted that one post into something else for your own agenda whatever that might be.

You need to examine what your own issues are here with dominion before you continue to attack me. It is as if you are daring me to stir something up for him at his hospital or employer. However, that is not how it works in the business world of any type. I will not offer information unless invited to do so and preferrably with a confirmation from someone at a significant level of management at his hospital. Get some commonsense here and enough with the nonsense obsession you have with me and dominion.

No silly, I said I've read many of the threads, not all. Just as I said that I may be wrong and people have posted about stealing equipment from a hospital for personal reasons. Of course, I've also asked that you show even the smallest shred of proof that people have made posts like that...like the OP for this thread, who it is patently clear, has not. Unfortunately, you aren't able to do that, are you? Odd, if it's such a widespread problem and this forum is such a good representation of the EMS workforce you'd think it'd be easy for you to find something like that... Seriously, if you can't back up the things you say and get bent out of shape when people call you out on your BS...tough luck.

Look, you can try and change the topic and move away from your blunders, that's fine, it's expected from you, but this is getting rather ridiculous. Even for you. To be clear though, each time I suggested you contact his hospital...that was sarcasm. Fitting with your personality though. Fix the problem=a systemic problem, not in any particular place.

Now that that's all clear...would you like to show a couple posts where the OP and others have talked about stealing supplies for their personal use?

 

[ki4mus]

ALL national registry medics are taught to draw labs and cultures. Through a varitiy of meathods (angiocath, stright stick, port=a=cath, and we were even taught to access a dailysis shunt (even though I will probly never use that method
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Uhm....you sure about that? Last time I saw a nurse access a port she was telling me about how she needed special training to be able to do so. I know my paramedic curriculum and the curriculum of other students and medics I know did not cover dialysis shunts or fistulas or ports. We did learn how to draw blood but it's never done in the field here.

we are sent to dailysis centers for clinical designed specifically to teach us how to access them in an emergancy, granted it would be an extreme last resort, and I will always use an IO long before I would risk doing harm though accessing the site.

 

[VentMedic]

Now that that's all clear...would you like to show a couple posts where the OP and others have talked about stealing supplies for their personal use?

Did you even bother to read the first post of this thread?

Do a search with a few different combinations fo words. We've had many different threads here about personal bags. I'm not wasting time to change your very naive disbelief that people could actually steal something.

I can't fix the fact that you are truly so naive that you believe no one steals. You become obsessed as you have in this thread even when you KNOW what I have said is true. You are the only one who lives in a perfect world where no one steals. You are just here to start a fight...as usual. You've used this thread long enough for your own personal reasons.

 

[PapaBear434]

I don't know if I stole them, but a nurse gave me a whole box of gloves. I just keep them in my bag for when we run low.

 

[Jon]

Ok.. Wow.

This ran for a long while... but we're done.

Before anyone manages to get themselves banned, I'm ending this.