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where do you wear your stethoscope?
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Posted 3 months ago Where do you wear your stethoscope? Around your neck, in a pocket or somewhere else? If you wear it around your neck do you feel neck strain during or at the end of your shift? |
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| Posted 3 months ago Usually i wear it around my neck (before) but i found out im having an allergic rxn to that, my neck feels itchy, not because i feel a neck strain or something. In the ward where i worked, i get to take the VS of my patients every 4 hours, and considering i have to attend to more than 50 of them or more, getting all their VS, sometimes more than 10 of them has a VS q1 or BP q1! arggghhh! "happiness depends upon ourselves" |
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| Posted 3 months ago Draped over my left shoulder. |
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| Posted 3 months ago I wear it around my neck the first 2 hours while I assess everyone, then I put it in my pocket or in my bag until I need it again. Later in the day I don't have it on me, but I can't stand it flapping around in the BM I clean up. |
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| Posted 3 months ago Usually I see doctor's put them round their necks, so that they won't forget it. It just depends on where you want to put it. They place you are comfortable so. ___________________________________ Check out your own laptop briefcases. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I used to get neck strain from it when I worked in the hospital and didn't have a lightweight stethoscope. I met another nurse once who had this cool holster type thing she clipped onto her waist of her pants and the scope would hang in there the bell and the earpieces would hook in it, so it was looped around and didn't dangle. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I draped it around my neck for years, but then found I was getting headaches from the neck strain so I quit doing that. Now I wear scrups with cargo pockets and keep it in there. I loop it so the head and the ear plugs are within the pocket so it doesn't get caught on anything. I never have trouble with it that way, and it is always on me if I need it in a pinch. |
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| Posted 2 months ago I wear mine all over in various pockets around my neck and sometimes either shoulder. I set it on my clipboard and carry it that way, but it is always with me no more that two or three steps away or I sense something is missing like when one of my tools is missing from its place in my woodshop in the hands of my children or wife, or worse yet lost. It, my stethopod, is part of me when I am Tim the Murse (Male Nurse that is) allowing me to hear that lovely sound lub dub or an interesting S3 or S4 every once in a while for variety. What would I do without it. Don't do patient care without it or you may be mistaken for a cleaning person, an administrator, or forbid, a nurse high on the managerment team that has lost his or her skills sitting in an office with a bottle of Tylenol, several half empty pens, a dirty computer keyboard, and hemroids on top of it all. Weird ah.
Cheers - Tim, R.N. |
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| Posted 2 months ago For those that wear it around your neck.. ever notice it eventually takes on a curved shape? And eventually gets stiff and the tubing cracks? The oils in your skin dissolve the pasticicers on the tubing and removes the flexibility. Some one sells a cloth sleeve to prevent this.. but a better and more hygenic solution is to get curley wire wrap.. its a long plastic thing shaped kind of like a spring used to budle wires together..you can get it at any autoparts store... put it on the tubing and it protects it from the oils in your skin.. PLUS its very washable. |
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| Posted about 1 month ago During my CNA clinicals, I kept them in my scrub pants cargo pocket. I'm going to buy a clip through because I have since bought pants that aren't cargos. |
...Well I used to wear mine around my neck at all times, until a male nurse I know got shingles from listening to a pt.'s lungs 4 abnormal breath sounds.........Opps from then on I learn to keep it clean and away from my bare skin, Can I say anymore! And I know its impossible to keep it away from ur skin I make sure I wipe it down good with a alcohol swab. I have them in my pocket at all times anyways[ So why not use them. I'm sure my friend does from now on!
