Tom’s Tech Tip: Certified Legal Nurse Consultants – Can You Hear Me Now?
We all wear earbuds of some sort. There are the sleek white Apple® ones you use when talking on your iPhone®. There are the tight-fitting ones CLNC® consultants use when listening to music on their iPods® while exercising, riding their bikes or working on their legal nurse consulting business. There are the ones Certified Legal Nurse Consultants wear while relaxing and watching movies on their tablets. And then there’s the funky rubbery one on our Bluetooth® headsets (that makes me look like a Borg while I’m in the grocery store) and the strangely shaped ones on the Bose® Quiet-Comfort silencers that help preserve my sanity on airplanes.
Whatever sort of earbuds you have, they all have one thing in common. They all get dirty. I can’t gross out a nurse by describing earwax because nurses spend much of their days up to their elbows in worse. But I will ask every CLNC consultant to pull your earbuds out of your purse, pocket or ears and inspect them. Yep, they’re probably clogged up with something best left to your imagination (not your tastebuds).
To keep your earbuds happy and healthy you only need to take one simple step – and that’s clean them. The best way to clean (and disinfect them at the same time) is with a soft cloth or cotton ball and some isopropyl alcohol. Just wet the cloth, squeeze the earbuds and wipe them out. Then swab down the outside and presto you’ve got clean earbuds (Get your ears next to help those earbuds stay clean). You can even pay this one forward if you like by cleaning every set of earbuds in your household if you want. That’s what I did.
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Tom, I got a kick out of your post. I know ear buds can get pretty nasty. The topic reminded me of nurse’s stethoscope ear buds. I had my own stethoscope and if I used one not mine I usually cleaned them with alcohol wipes. Sometimes there is no time to clean them and had to grab and go in an emergency, and later developed an ear infection.
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Tom, I got a kick out of your post. I know ear buds can get pretty nasty. The topic reminded me of nurse’s stethoscope ear buds. I had my own stethoscope and if I used one not mine I usually cleaned them with alcohol wipes. Sometimes there is no time to clean them and had to grab and go in an emergency, and later developed an ear infection.