Cleaning up after the vets?

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Saskia Quinn — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:32:41 GMT

hehe Missvetnurse, its not always a bed of roses though!! in fact, its never a bed of roses!!

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Claire Cameron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:09:15 GMT

[quote user="SaskiaVN"]

Mmmmm.............. working with a lovely male small animal vet who is not married etc etc and lives on his own. He works long hours in my practice so occassionally I take his clothes home to wash them - now when I say that, I mean, scrub tops, trousers, operating gowns etc and occasionally the odd jumper or shirt. I don't mind as I am doing washing everyday anyway with a young family so a few extra bits wont do any harm. I guess I 'mother' him in a way.

However, when it comes to the rest of the vets - I am not so understanding!! I have scolded them for leaving such a mess, leaving dead bodies lying in the kennel, causing havoc generally when they are on call. I am quite understanding a lot of the time but when I feel they are taking the piss so to speak, I dont have a problem telling them about the mess they have caused and getting them to clean it up. I dont have a problem with cleaning up on a general basis but when there is so much blood and crap left lying that was in my view unnecessary - then I will let them know that this is not on.

The vets in my practice know I wont tolerate such disregard for nurses. Maybe it comes with years of experience?!!!

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Can I work with you?

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Sparky — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:56:14 GMT

I completly understand and you so have a right to being annoyed...it does all the nurses at work head's in!

It feels like 3/4 of the time we're clearing up after the vets, and if I pass the drugs trolley everytime I walk in the kennel room and clear it once of syringe wrapping and needle caps, I do it like 50 times a day..does my head in, and they leave the consult rooms in such a tip! rubbish everywhere, the wood's lamp out, the vaccine tray left out...

We had a vet student in the last two weeks and he said that every vet needs a nurse, or at least 2, he watched and saw the mess and caos left by vets.....and thats a vet student.

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Claire Cameron — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:58:52 GMT

I have to admit my vet can be a bit messy but im very lucky as he sweeps and mops the floors for me every night

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Fleabee99 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:36:38 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

Have not had a vet tell me it was my job to tidy up, and it would not be a good idea for a vet to tell me that. Not if life longevity was in their plan of living.

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LOL!!!

really think the "leaving of dead bodies" around is unexcusable, shouldnt it be a health &safety issue?

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:03:12 GMT

Have not had a vet tell me it was my job to tidy up, and it would not be a good idea for a vet to tell me that. Not if life longevity was in their plan of living.

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Felicity Caldwell — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:18:16 GMT

Some Vets really are just sooo messy - I think they dont even realise half the time how much extra work they actually create for us VN's.

We did once have a 'tidy vet competition' as they were really taking the mick & not helping to tidy up - a little pathetic, but it seemed to work!!!! They tidiest Vet at the end of the month won a price - I think it was vouchers or a bottle of whiskey. It was great for that month, I have never seen Vets in competition with each other to clean up after themselves...hehe....makes me giggle.

The annoying thing is - when you ask them or tell them to tidy up....they look at you as if to say "but that is your job..." GGgggRRRRR!!

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:40:46 GMT

Feet wash better clean however no excuse for not cleaning her footprints. And l am afraid l am a shoe hater l own 1 crocs, 1 good shoes and a couple of pairs of wooly winter boots. Footware hate me l hate them. It is a perfect relationship when both parties are in agreement

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:35:10 GMT

I worked with a vet once who would do the bloodiest ops in her bare feet, so she did not get blood all over her shoes!!!(never heard of shoe covers) anyway she would then proceed to walk everywhere afterwards with bloody footprints all over the place..............she was really untidy with everything else as well, she would leave everything in her wake

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Louise Allen — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:55:45 GMT

[quote user="sal the 1st"]

will try and find you a copy of the poster I used to have up

'your mother doesnt work here - and you are old enough to clean up your own mess'

caused a few raised eyebrows on the first day it went up but seemed to do the trick

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Could of done with one of those in my last practice!! The vets there were extremely messy. I wouldnt mind but when theyd put things like needles/syringes, vax bottles in a kidney dish instead of the sharps/doop bin which was right nxt to it, it takes the micky a bit!!! Luckily the vets a lot cleaner where i work now, tho same cant be said for the receptionist, who doesnt seem to know what a broom/mop is or how to wash up!! Its only a small practice of a couple of nurses and receptionists so she should be helping do floors etc but has to be virtually harrassed into doing it, drining me mad, sorry rant over!!!

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Saskia Quinn — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:47:24 GMT

The vets in my practice know I wont tolerate such disregard for nurses. Maybe it comes with years of experience?!!!

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

violet — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:29:01 GMT

esp when you have to walk round following the trail of used abandoned needles and syringes without the caps put back on, seriously is there any need?! or when you go into the consult at the end of the surgery and it is a total shit pit - are they not embarrassed to be calling the next client into the room when its such a state, and the bin is right behind them? are these people not grown ups? wonder what they do when they go home and dont have a nurse to follow them round cleaning up the crap they leave here there and everywhere. god knows what their houses look like.

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Vicky RVN — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:19:49 GMT

Haha love that Sal!

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Sal the 1st — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:19:10 GMT

will try and find you a copy of the poster I used to have up

'your mother doesnt work here - and you are old enough to clean up your own mess'

caused a few raised eyebrows on the first day it went up but seemed to do the trick

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

BumbledBee — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:15:31 GMT

I don't like when i'm in the middle of doing something, and the vet walks past a puddle of pee in the waiting room to tell me to clean it up! They just walked past it!

I can put up with it, because i really really do love my job, and everyone that I work with. Sometimes I just feel a bit like a maid!

Re: Cleaning up after the vets?

Vicky RVN — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:08:48 GMT

I def think you are right to be annoyed! You should be able to find things as you leave them i think. You are a nurse, not a skivvy to vets! Yes, nursing includes a great deal of cleaning, but that doesn't mean cleaning up after others who are too lazy to do their job! A dog i was helping a vet with today vomited, i was cleaning up the drip which was covered in vomit while the vet cleaned it off the floor. Another nurse offered to clean it off the floor but the vet insisted she do it, which is the way i think it should be!