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Discovered at the workplace a couple of years back, these are discarded medical sharps left in a trash bag box, located within a healthcare center.
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100% a janitor. That’s a trash bag box. Looks exactly like a sysco box.
B
It is! That’s what we were getting from the supply room. We needed trash bags.
M
Someone was self medicating in the health facility
C
More likely is someone dumped a sharps bin into the box because the proper bin was nearly overflowing.
T
This is a diabetic’s personal sharps though, not medical staff supplies used on patients. Insulin syringes, insulin pens, and single use lancets. Kinda makes it better.
S
All that is true, but about 3/4 to the bottom slightly to The right of center there’s tubing to hook from a butterfly to a blood tube.
T
I’d assume it’s insulin pump tubing
S
Hmm you know what, that might be exactly what that is. I’m a retired healthcare worker, so HIPAA is a grey area here but I think I can see a partially obstructed patient wrist band, 3/4 to the top, again slightly right with the name …ck McNallis? I had to zoom in pretty far, and my vision isn’t great, but if OP works with the guy they likely recognize that partial name.
T
…ck, Ronald S
S
It’s also from 2017 so probably not gonna find them
T
Oh we’re all good, HIPAA would not be an issue here. Pharmacist. Looks to be a thermal label off their supplies, not a wrist band.
L
Either ….ck McNallis or ….ck McNamus 🪪
M
Shhhh this is the internet we dont use logic here. But this does make the most sense.
A
I’m just glad they didn’t put it in a garbage bag.
E
They should have called EVS theres no excuse for that
D
Why wouldn’t you just use the sharps bin? It doesn’t seem like they would be inventoried.
M
i really hope this is how you found it. don’t tell us you actually ripped into a sharps bin…
B
We think someone dumped a sharps container in this box looking for wasted narcotics on noc shift.
S
That doesn’t really make sense because this is ONLY diabetic supplies which points to someone like a coworker using it for personal reasons.
B
The sharps boxes hang in the medication carts and are primarily used for used diabetic supplies. Refused and wasted meds are also dropped in the sharps containers for easy disposal.
S
I feel that surely there is somewhere you can report this to other than reddit
T
A diabetic had an improvised sharps container. You go through a lot when you have type 1 diabetes.
V
Joint commission would have a field day with this
S
This is from an individual. Doctor/Nurses dont recap needles bc of risk of sticking yourself.
F
free rigs. st have the numbers on them and everything!
W
All insulin therapy but a weird mix. Usually folks aren’t on both pen therapy and syringes, and the safety pen needle is usually used in an acute care setting like a hospital. Odd box.
B
That’s why we think it was drug seeking. Narcotics were sometimes wasted in the sharps containers with the idea that no one would care to dig through one.
W
Plungers are in and caps are still on. I’d put my money on “lazy janitorial staff” or “diabetic with hoarder tendencies” No junkie is reassembling or recapping syringes
B
The drugs wasted are pills, not injectables. But who knows.
T
Found a Gatorade bottle with 17 needles in it at work once
G
To be fair, this is basically what they tell you to do if a sharps container is unavailable, along with the instruction to *clearly mark* that it contains used sharps.
R
Lots of diabetics store their sharps in things like that.
L
That’s where I put them.
J
Where else are you supposed to put them
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A sharps container? [https://schaanhealthcare.ca/medical-supplies/needles-syringes/sharps-containers/](https://schaanhealthcare.ca/medical-supplies/needles-syringes/sharps-containers/)
T
In a SHARPS BIN. Not USED medical equipment in cardboard. Use your brain please
R
No amount of brain will tell you what to do with sharps if you have never needed to use them or worked around a medical facility. It is a perfectly reasonable question.
S
Not true. You dont need medical knowledge to know that needles and razorblades dont belong in the normal trash. If people would get their head out of their asses and think about the bigger picture or about anyone else besides themselves, these kinda questions wouldn’t pop up. Or at least they would know its the wrong way and would ask how
R
Construction sites throw away razor blades every single day into the normal trash.
W
No you cant do that, you must go to store and buy a sharps designated container and scold everyone on the jobsite for not using their brain lol. They will definitely listen to you and not call you a dumbass.
B
Never ever underestimate how incredibly stupid/ignorant people within the general public can be and are.
G
Needle Bin would make more sense. Because needles are are also used medical equipment. What person, not in the medical industry, calls needles Sharps? I honestly didn’t know
A
Probably anyone that deals with single use cutting utensils.
T
A sharps bin is a needle bin. A needle is sharp, anyone with a brain should put that together tbh.
G
As a lay person, I’ve never thought of needles as sharp. Pointy yes. I’ve never even called a knife “a Sharp”. I’ve never heard them called than. “Used Medical Equipment”, immediately I associate needles with that
G
If you use needles regularly for health reasons, you call it a sharps bin or sharps container. That’s what it’s called when you buy them, and that’s the name used for proper disposal. That’s how it’s explained when you start using insulin or other injected medications.
M
Dude you gotta chill. Being this bitter is a bad look and a bad way to go about life.
P
You could make a miniature of that scene from Saw: ‘whatever.’
D
That just means some one wasn’t doing their job correctly.
T
At first I thought this was a box of Lego Technic pieces, and I was excited for you.
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