Comments on: When germs hitch a ride…on your scrubs http://scrubsmag.com/germs-on-your-scrubs/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:07:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John http://scrubsmag.com/germs-on-your-scrubs/#comment-1685 John Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:23:53 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=8607#comment-1685 Please see our website and product, StethoClean, which keeps the stethoscope clean with barrier protection....patient to patient. Please have your Infection Control specialist on site know about our product invented by an RN in Ohio. Dirty Stethoscopes is THE BIGGEST dirty secret in the medical field's goals to reduce infections. JC Please see our website and product, StethoClean, which keeps the stethoscope clean with barrier protection….patient to patient. Please have your Infection Control specialist on site know about our product invented by an RN in Ohio. Dirty Stethoscopes is THE BIGGEST dirty secret in the medical field’s goals to reduce infections.

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]]> By: Nicole, RN http://scrubsmag.com/germs-on-your-scrubs/#comment-1430 Nicole, RN Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:17:07 +0000 http://scrubsmag.com/?p=8607#comment-1430 think the same can be said for a gentleman's dangling tie- are they ever washed??- and stethoscopes. I have watched MDs enter rooms where patients were on contact precautions, use their stethoscope on that patient, leave the room, wash their hands but not their stethoscope, then enter the next room and listen with the same dirty stethoscope. I can see where the discussion on the white lab coat would harbor some disagreements because it is the "representation" of the doctor, if you will, to wear the white coat. Interesting article. Maybe you could open up a poll on the website to see what fellows nurses would say about such discussion, would be interesting... think the same can be said for a gentleman’s dangling tie- are they ever washed??- and stethoscopes. I have watched MDs enter rooms where patients were on contact precautions, use their stethoscope on that patient, leave the room, wash their hands but not their stethoscope, then enter the next room and listen with the same dirty stethoscope. I can see where the discussion on the white lab coat would harbor some disagreements because it is the “representation” of the doctor, if you will, to wear the white coat. Interesting article. Maybe you could open up a poll on the website to see what fellows nurses would say about such discussion, would be interesting…

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