Nursing Students General Students
Published Aug 17, 2009
Nepenthe Sea
585 Posts
Is it bad when....you are making your bed and you make it up "hospital-style"....complete with hospital corners and a toe pleat?
At least I still remember how to make a hospital bed from last semester!
JomoNurse
267 Posts
what are you talking about? i don't understand your question.
I was just being silly. We learned how to make a bed hospital-style last semester, and as I was making it the other day, I found myself making it that way. Just realizing what a dork I can be...I have nursing school on the brain, for sure.
nursel56
7,081 Posts
Why yes, as a matter of fact, there are several things I do as a direct result of Nursing school bed-making :) Miter corners. In the olden days there weren't fitted sheets. Fan-fold blankets. Very convenient. Fold pillow in half to put in pillowcase. No more tuck under chin. Have the open side of the pillowcase face away from the door. Do they still do that?? Fun times!
Yes! Miter corners! That's what they're called. I couldn't remember the name, so I was calling them hospital corners. No wonder the other poster didn't know what I was talking about. Yeah, they still do it that way, appearantly.
rn/writer, RN
9 Articles; 4,168 Posts
It can't be an age thing. The nurse who didn't understand says he/she is 94. (Dementia, maybe?)
sweetiepeas
93 Posts
I make my bed with Hospital corners but not the toe pleat yet. I start in September :)
LaurenSN
12 Posts
Thanks for laugh! I don't do it myself, but maybe I should start since I'm pretty slow at it. Hmm...
mrsshifflette09
86 Posts
My mom brought me up doing hospital corners, she went to nursing school for 1 semester and dropped out. That is the one thing that stuck with her forever. It does annoy my husband that i don't let him make up the beds cuz he never does it right. lol. Once you learn how to do them i think it sticks lol.
ShantheRN, BSN, RN
646 Posts
I fan fold ALL the time. It's actually pretty convenient LOL
I also stopped putting pillow cases on using the chin tuck. Now I always do the inside out method. Funny thing is, it took a few months before it dawned on me that I was doing it!
We have a particularly bad dementia patient. She follows you around, asking the same questions, crying, stumbling....it's awful. I had a dream she was chasing me through a maze and I couldn't get away from her. It's pretty bad when patients are invading your dreams :chuckle
carolinapooh, BSN, RN
3,577 Posts
My house too! My mom went to nursing school in the 1950s, my dad was in the Navy, I did four years in the Air Force - I taught half my class how to make a bed, and I won't let DH NEAR the sheets b/c I only remake the thing anyway.
Sorry for lurking on the student boards but sometimes the others are a bit too jaded for me... :)
kfarinato
139 Posts
I make my bed the "hospital way" all the time, and I even have my husband doing it now!