nmwninjartMingg that is some serious hand soap wow.
I hate how heavily chlorinated the water is in my city. My skin and hair dry out so much from it. Worse in the winter. I have a filtered shower head so that helps...until the filter runs out.
It really is lol.
I work in an inpatient rehab/long term care facility. So we are where people go when they aren't able to go home, but don't need as intensive care as the hospital. And often our units will "get" what they "get" from the hospitals (MRSA, C Diff is a big one right now, TB(big yikes), and other hospital related infections.) However they don't start having symptoms until they get here. But there is no clear way of saying it was the hospital or us, so our supervisors are hounding us for proper infection control (hence the hand washing 63 times).
We have to wash our hands when entering a room, leaving a room, before putting on gloves and after taking gloves off, any time we touch linen or any surface really and we have to use an alcohol based wipe or sanitizer every time we pass a meal tray or plate. We have 40 patients on our unit and we serve two meals during my shift. So with 5 aides that means we feed about 8 people per meal, twice, so 16 times we are supposed to use hand sanitizer (in theory). Also anytime we take out dirty linen or briefs from a room to the soiled room, we have to wash before we grab the bag (because you can't touch the bag with dirty hands and bring it into the hall because that contaminates the hall) and then after we throw it out we have to wash again.
So basically a brief episode of care like taking someone to the toilet can mean 5-15 hand washings - assuming you follow the rules and do it by the book.
It's pretty intense. But it's worth it so that shit doesn't spread to other patients (because that means even more precautions we have to take) and also we lower our own risk of getting shit.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk hahaha.
