Bed making

[Schmoo1022]

Hi,

Does anyone have a skill checklist for bed making? Proper order and such. We are thinking of hiring a bedmaker at our facility, and as we were discussing this, a whole big "disagreement" started about where the drawer sheet goes in relation to the pad?

Some where saying the pad goes under the drawer sheet? I have never seen or heard this. We always put it on top of the drawer sheet.

Any one know? Have something I can print out??

Thanks a bunch

[fuzzywuzzy, CNA]

I've never heard of someone hired just to make beds.

I don't think it makes any sense to pad the draw sheet on top of the soaker pad, but whatever works for the people who are actually changing the beds/boosting people.

[Pepperlady]

Could you not do a little experiment and make the bed in a variety of ways, try lifting someone (staff perhaps) and see how it works? Seeing is sometimes believing.

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

http://www.drugs.com/cg/how-to-make-a-bed.html

This website goes into detail instructions and says it goes over the bed. =D

[chicookie, BSN, RN]

Also if you had a nursing fundamentals book, it should be in there also.

[nightmare, RN]

Our pads go next to the skin.If you put it under a draw sheet then the whole bed gets soaked!If you are moving someone up a bed there are techniques to do this with the pad still in place.

[morte, LPN, LVN]

http://www.drugs.com/cg/how-to-make-a-bed.html

This website goes into detail instructions and says it goes over the bed. =D

unfortunately, this site doesnt solve the prob......over or under the draw sheet, it says....

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Our pads go next to the skin.If you put it under a draw sheet then the whole bed gets soaked!If you are moving someone up a bed there are techniques to do this with the pad still in place.

Yeah...that.

I can't believe it would be done any other way. We don't use lift or draw sheets any more. Instead, we have those cloth pads that are large enough to function as a draw sheet and pad.

[Rhone]

All right, I whipped out Clinical Nursing Skills & Techniques by Perry and Potter and opened to the directions for "Making an unoccupied bed" on p. 421.

Applying the drawsheet (which is listed as "optional") is Step 9.

Step 13 says: "If needed, apply waterproof pad over bottom sheet or drawsheet."

My interpretation, based on the drawsheet being an optional component, but being in an earlier step than the pad, is that step 13 essentially means "if there's a drawsheet, then the pad is going over it; otherwise the pad is going directly over the bottom sheet."

But I'm just a 2nd semester LPN student, so take my interpretation with a grain of salt.

[lpnflorida, LPN]

Procedure II Make an Unoccupied Bed

(Time: 8 minutes)

Possible Allocated

1. Assembled equipment and supplies

2. Used alcohol-based handrub for hand hygiene

3. Practiced standard precautions throughout procedure

4. Arranged the linen on a chair in the order in which the linen is to be

used

5. Adjusted bed to appropriate height and locked wheels

6. Removed soiled linens by rolling into compact bundle, and placed in

hamper

7. Unfolded bottom sheet on bed

a. Right side up

b. With narrow hem even with foot of mattress

c. With center fold of sheet at center of bed

8. Tucked clean bottom sheet under mattress to fit tightly and smoothly

at head of bed

9. Made a mitered corner at head of mattress to fit tightly and smoothly 3

10. Tucked entire side from head to foot of bed

11. Placed drawsheet at center of bed (14-16 inches from head of bed)

and tucked under mattress to fit tightly and smoothly

12. Unfolded top sheet on mattress, wrong side up, with hem even with

top edge of mattress and center fold used to center the sheet

13. Placed the spread/blanket on the bed right side up with the top edge

even with the top edge of the mattress, using the center fold to center

the spread.

14. Tucked top sheet and spread/blanket as a unit under foot of mattress;

mitered corner to fit tightly and smoothly, allowing the top sheet and

spread to hang free on the side of the mattress

15. Moved to opposite side of bed, fanfolded top covers to center of bed

[CathyLew]

I've never heard of someone hired just to make beds.

yeaaaaahhhhh... I was just thinking that myself..... Chief bedmaker.... head of bedmaking..... Master-tucker... what kind of title does a bedmaker have?

we don't use draw sheets anymore. We have lifter pad/soaker pads. When we make the bed, they start out on top of the bottom sheet.... by the time the bed has been messed in...they are way up arround the patients shoulders and doing no good!

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

The soaker pad goes on top of the draw sheet ---if no draw sheet is used it goes on top of the bottom sheet. We had a bed maker at one place I worked. She made about 40 beds in her 4 hours. We had fitted sheets and she didn't have a clue what a hospital corner was all about. My staff laughs at me when I help out by making beds. The sheets are on so tight and the corners are mitered....you could flip a quarter on them and it would bounce....ah the old days!

[morte, LPN, LVN]

hey cape, "gotcha" by a "coupla" years. When i was a kid, there were no such things as fitted sheets...we mitered all four!....(extra long sheets) and yes i have heard/met bedmakers.....no cert req. cheap labor....