Table 2 Receiver vignette examples

You are standing at the foot of the bed with your arms crossed in a room of a patient who is on contact precautions for MRSA. You have not put on the prescribed Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) as you only had to ask one question and you have ensured that you haven’t touched anything. One of the junior nurses/midwives puts their head through the door and states “you need to get out now and put the appropriate PPE on, you know you should not be in here without it!”

You are on the daily ward round in your unit as part of the interprofessional team and you have just moved from Mrs. Smith’s bed to Mrs. Williams, next door. You don’t believe you touched anything at Mrs. Smith’s bed space, however a senior medical officer on the ward round speaks up to you and in front of the interprofessional team, but not in front of the patient, and states “ah, excuse me, I saw you coming to see Mrs. Williams after seeing Mrs. Smith and I didn’t see you wash or sanitise your hands. As part of the hand hygiene procedure, this needs to be done before you see Mrs. Williams in order to protect our patients. I’m just wondering what’s up?”