The squeamish RN probably faces a higher risk from the saliva and 
germs on other people's lunch dishes washed in the same sink than she 
does from traces of breastmilk on pump parts!

Who's afraid of what, indeed.

Margaret
Longmont, CO

At 12:06 AM -0400 5/14/08, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>One RN washed her personal pump kit in the RN lounge sink and 
>another RN had a fit about it. She didn't like the thought of 
>washing her lunch dishes in the same sink where the other RN washed 
>her pump parts. But the mothers have to wash their pump kits in the 
>common sink in our 4-bed rooms (there is another sink in the 
>bathroom). Who's afraid of contaminating what here?
>
>Phyllis

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