Vaping nurses?

[texastumbleweed]

Wondering if any nurses here have vaped at work? I wouldn't dare do it, especially because I work for the government/military, and it just looks bad. But it sure would make the time spent sitting there watching my patient breathe 100% oxygen, sleeping, on a cardiac monitor, much more enjoyable, and would go so well with googling! hee hee!

 

[rcross]

Personally, I wouldn't smoke the e-cig around an oxygen tank or in an area with highly flammable gases. I haven't got my first e-cig yet, but the atomizer does heat up quite a bit and if a small fiber combusts it could prove disastrous. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as this is speculation.

 

[Wansbeck]

There is no way that e-cigs can be considered safe to use in inflammable atmospheres but it would be nice if they could be used in rest rooms.
A couple of years ago here in the UK a nurse was murdered when she went outside for a smoke.

 

[texastumbleweed]

whoa! i reckon so! didnt even think about it. not that i would ever even think about doing it at work anyway..just cuz of appearances..even if it were not combustible/flammable!

Personally, I wouldn't smoke the e-cig around an oxygen tank or in an area with highly flammable gases. I haven't got my first e-cig yet, but the atomizer does heat up quite a bit and if a small fiber combusts it could prove disastrous. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as this is speculation.

 

[satake]

I'm not a nurse, but I am a healthcare worker. My hospital has a newly formed smoking commitee so I gave them all the info. As of right now they said OK to use indoors, just not in public/patient areas. I think it helped that I presented it as a mini-nebulizer. They asked me about the vapor and I pointed out that we give patients high volume neb treatments with albuterol and the RT standing right next to them holding the nebulizer doesn't get any. When you look at the scale of a 901 compared to a regular neb treatment it has to be like 100 times less in volume.

 

[satake]

Personally, I wouldn't smoke the e-cig around an oxygen tank or in an area with highly flammable gases. I haven't got my first e-cig yet, but the atomizer does heat up quite a bit and if a small fiber combusts it could prove disastrous. Please correct me if I'm wrong, as this is speculation.

You'd have to be pretty damm close! In the OR we run 90-100% o2 and use electro-cautery(think human arc welder) within 2 1/2 -3 feet of the mask. I think in a normal hospital room you'd be fine. I'd be more worried about using it around solvents and glues.

 

[Ezandria]

I think it helped that I presented it as a mini-nebulizer.

That's how I presented it to my mother and she loved the idea of me vapeing. I am in pre-nursing school courses at the moment, and I think that I will be presenting my supermini to peers as such from now on.

I hope this spreads like wild-fire for the smokers of the world. Definetly better then analog cigs!

 

[kfig]

I am a nursing assistant in a hospital and also going to school for my RN. I vape in the break room and I've done it a few times at the nurses desk when no patients were around for people who were curious to see. If we allow cell phones with batteries no reason we cant allow e cigs with batteries. I wouldn't do it in front of management or in patient areas. I wouldn't be too concerned with the oxygen as Its oxygen that feeds a fire not starts one. Tons of electronics are used all day every day around o2. A bunch of the doc's think its cool that i've managed to quit with it. I had one tell me that its no different than smoking because Im still getting nic.....but obviously I digress.

 

[Mr.Whitecloud]

Cell phones are not allowed in our hospitals,but strangely enough I have never been told to stop vaping,I do not use my pv anywhere near O2 or any other gas for that matter.Things that go boom in the night are not my cuppa tea