Figure 5.

While on the Shoulder to Shoulder brigade, I learned a great deal about how to be flexible and creative when dealing with limited resources, while also maintaining patient safety. This photo shows the sharps container made from a wet wipes container used by the nursing team for a majority of the brigade. Although our team did not have access to the typical sharps containers that are used in the United States, we had an ethical obligation to ensure that our sharps were disposed of safely in order to prevent accidental injury and disease transmission. This sharps container, although unconventional, offered easy access to dispose of sharps and prevented their removal from the container, which are the functions of traditional sharps containers. This image captures the resourcefulness used by brigade participants to adhere to their ethical responsibility to provide safe care despite resource limitations.