drinks at work.

Hi Guys sorry i feel guilty I start a thread and didnt respond. Yes its more relating to hot drinks, apparently its nothing to do with making then as we have hot water urns. Mangement said it looks unprofessional but we can have a water bottle hidden. so meh sorry to waste your time bye. :D:D:D
 
Having worked in a hospital no drinks are allowed in clinical areas however there's nothing to stop you nipping off to the break room for a glass of water, I doubt they would kick up if they do go to the NMC/union
 
My sister worked on wards and she had exactly the same problem. No drinks on, she skeaked a bottle of water and kept it at the nurses only to be told off. Like the OP the wards were that busy and under staffed that she was not getting breaks. She not works in theatre and she is extremely happy. She said the wards were manic and under staffed.
 
Mrs Seabiscuit said:
Hi Guys sorry i feel guilty I start a thread and didnt respond. Yes its more relating to hot drinks, apparently its nothing to do with making then as we have hot water urns. Mangement said it looks unprofessional but we can have a water bottle hidden. so meh sorry to waste your time bye. :D:D:D
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Quite where they expect you to hide it I shudder to think :eek:
 
wnb said:
My sister worked on wards and she had exactly the same problem. No drinks on, she skeaked a bottle of water and kept it at the nurses only to be told off. Like the OP the wards were that busy and under staffed that she was not getting breaks. She not works in theatre and she is extremely happy. She said the wards were manic and under staffed.
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Theatres and ICU are the best places to work when it's hot, mmm Icey cold aircon!
 
I would have thought your only legal requirement was to be allowed a drink during your statutory break period. Anything more is a bonus!
 
Jokester said:
I would have thought your only legal requirement was to be allowed a drink during your statutory break period. Anything more is a bonus!
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Wouldn't mention that to Skywalker...:p

He was not impressed when he was told his offspring couldn't drink anything but water outside of non statutory breaks in school.
 
Jokester said:
I would have thought your only legal requirement was to be allowed a drink during your statutory break period. Anything more is a bonus!
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Yes this is actually correct Jokester. As said a few posts up by myself, apparently we can drink hot/cold drinks when ever we choose. We are now no longer allowed to sit in the nurses station in view of people, I might add our patients are in private side rooms. However we can go into the treatment room and kitchen and take as long as we choose.

It appears in the end it was a very very badly worded notice hehe :D:D
 
Well that sucks.

To make you feel better, I get to take as many breaks as I choose to take with a lunch break that can be as long as needed (within reason). I probably take 30 mins breaks during the morning and a 1.5 hr lunch, then a total of 30-45mins break in the afternoon.
This helps me stay productive, so when I do work I absolutely smash it and storm through it all. This is in the banking environment if it make any difference.

Oh sorry.. I was supposed to make you feel better.. oops
 
zegna said:
Well that sucks.

To make you feel better, I get to take as many breaks as I choose to take with a lunch break that can be as long as needed (within reason). I probably take 30 mins breaks during the morning and a 1.5 hr lunch, then a total of 30-45mins break in the afternoon.
This helps me stay productive, so when I do work I absolutely smash it and storm through it all. This is in the banking environment if it make any difference.

Oh sorry.. I was supposed to make you feel better.. oops
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firstly I think you missed the point of my thread, then my subsequent replies. Secondly are you unemployed then?
 
EVH said:
Speak to your ward manager / sister and raise it as a concern. In the last few weeks I've had all sorts of people complaining to me.. Consultants, catering staff, therapists and various nursing staff. Most of the time the advice I give is usually that they should manage it locally, but there's no getting around the fact that sometimes you need air con.
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We've just had a nice new hospital built with no air con anywhere so our H&S have been run ragged responding to fainters in all areas this last couple of weeks.

Op,
You work at a local hospital to me so if you can get on the Intranet have a look at the Policies because there's bound to be one for food & drink.
 
Dimple said:
We've just had a nice new hospital built with no air con anywhere so our H&S have been run ragged responding to fainters in all areas this last couple of weeks.

Op,
You work at a local hospital to me so if you can get on the Intranet have a look at the Policies because there's bound to be one for food & drink.
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Cheers Dimple was wonderin when you would jump on board :D:D Yeah I heard about that hehe :D:D
 
As the OP subsequently determined, they are not allowed to sit at the nurses station drinking hot drinks, good.
Its as clinical an area as the rest, at least it should be treated as such.

They are allowed to do so in the kitchen (good), or more utterly bizarrely, in the treatment room (bad).
Cross infection protocol does suggest that clinical dress shouldn't be worn outside of clinic areas, in theory this should apply to break and lunch times, but virtually no hospital bothers to enforce such rules as their facilities don't permit.

So in some cases, people come to work, work in, clean up body fluids in, eat their lunch in, and go home in the same dress.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
As the OP subsequently determined, they are not allowed to sit at the nurses station drinking hot drinks, good.
Its as clinical an area as the rest, at least it should be treated as such.

They are allowed to do so in the kitchen (good), or more utterly bizarrely, in the treatment room (bad).
Cross infection protocol does suggest that clinical dress shouldn't be worn outside of clinic areas, in theory this should apply to break and lunch times, but virtually no hospital bothers to enforce such rules as their facilities don't permit.

So in some cases, people come to work, work in, clean up body fluids in, eat their lunch in, and go home in the same dress.
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Yes the whole drinks thing in a treatment room is bizarre, i disagree with it so go in the staff room. and yep you are right it is a big cross infection risk, you wipe someones bum then go eat your dinner in the same uniform. But as you say hospitals don't enforce any rules to make you change your clothes.
 
Its not as if they can, lots of building were still built back when they were cleaned by everything being physically scrubbed and soap and water being used rather than oils gels sprays and equipment.
There is nothing wrong with physically cleaning, it just simply isn't done.
The building are old, there are not staff change facilities present on every ward zone, not is it practical, as units are rarely designed with this in mind, would be wonderful if they were.

Green scrubs for wards, blue scrubs for surgery, orange scrubs for kitchen, so anyone not swapping is easily spotted, then you come to work and go home from work in your own clothes, certainly not a nursing uniform.

It would help, perhaps only a bit, as we still allow stinky visitors and indeed very 'stinky' patient onto our lovely clean facilities ;)
 
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