Do Nurses Still Make *Real* Beds?

[DoGoodThenGo]

Thread on giving baths got me thinking, and was wondering if nurses still make beds with "hospital" corners anymore. Also is learning the three basic types of beds part of formal nursing education anymore?

I'll leave aside the mandate that pillow slip opening must face away from the door for now. *LOL*

Merely require information, as am often gobsmacked at what passes for a bed these days in hospital, and often hear "I don't have time for that".

[klone, MSN, RN]

I do. I learned "hospital bedmaking" in school 6+ years ago, and that's still how I make beds when I'm at work.

[evolvingrn, BSN, RN]

no i don't and im not to worried about it.

[hiddencatRN, BSN, RN]

I learned how to make hospital corners in school, but honestly, as long as the bed looks neat does it matter what angle the pleat is at? What's the evidence-based practice behind the pillow opening facing away from the door?

[Otessa, BSN, RN]

Yep, still do-even at home.

[Coffee Nurse, BSN, RN]

Been making my bed with hospital corners ever since my nurse mother taught me when I was little. My patients today get them, too, even though they're in isolettes or cribs!

[wooh, BSN, RN]

I'd have time to do perfect hospital corners, but I'm too busy taking surveys so we can get Magnet.

[WickedRedRN, BSN, RN]

Bottom sheets are fitted ones at my facility, so no hospital corners here. I am particular about no wrinkles in the sheets, draws are folded "just so" and I still face the open side of the pillow slip away from the door. Funny, just the other day I was putting a pillow on a bed and I wondered why I still do that!

[Forever Sunshine, ASN, RN]

At home when I change my sheets I do the hospital corners.

When the moon turns blue and I have time to make a bed at work... we have fitted sheets lol

[nursel56]

All I see is the fitted sheet on the bottom, and no mitered corners on the top sheet and blanket. I still like the idea of the old-style bedmaking when a sheet could be either top or bottom with the bottom hem of the bottom sheet not tucked under but flush w/ the mattress end. I don't think a cloth drawsheet is used very often anymore, either.

I like it better that way, for one thing it was unique. Another - as I was saying in the bath thread, I took a lot of pride in doing well those things hardly anybody cares about anymore. There has always been "more important things to worry about". I guess it's just a mindset.

[Hygiene Queen]

Tight draw sheets, pillow case openings away from the door, no linens dragging the floor and perfect hospital corners.

Learned to do it so fast and so efficiently, I can make a Martha Stewart perfect bed in the same amount of time it takes someone else to slap one together sloppily.

I think it is NOT a top priority, but it is a "visual" that shows pride, organization, cleanliness and comfort.

BUT it is not, by any means, my first concern.

[ukstudent]

Our bottom sheets are fitted, at least they are meant to be. On the occasion that we have an extra large bed that the fitted sheets will not go on, then yes I will do hospital corners on straight sheets. I never do hospital corners on top sheets or blankets. I have to assess pulses and color too often to bother with that nonsense.