Saturday, September 25, 2010

OOPS

I made the biggest booboo at clinicals this Friday at Healthsouth.  The day started off with me losing my ID - I did find it later in my car.  Then I broke my glasses.  I did manage to fix them. 
But my faux pas was that I entered an isolation room. Yep.  My picture of an isolation room was closed doors and carts outside with PPE and big ominous signs that were obvious.  Nope.  
It was a contact isolation room and the guy had MRSA.  I was all over him taking vitals....
I was gently corrected and needless to say, or maybe not, I won't do that again!!  After disinfecting/degerming/cleaning up everything I could including myself, I did receive a U for that part of the day but I do consider it a valuable lesson.  Sometimes the mistakes we make are just that - valuable! 


1 comment:

  1. Oh no! Well it's better to make the mistakes now rather than later!! Glad everything worked out:-)

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