Using the same bed and sharing a bathroom with a roommate like our regular patients do in a hospital? This thought just occured to me and I wanted to share it with my AN family! Personally, I would dread my whole stay there. I work as cna and knowing the number of bed changes we do with incontinent patients using washclothes to clean them up, it makes me cringe lol. I know our laundry dept does a great job of keeping our linens clean, but I can't imagine using the same sheets and towels to lay and bathe with knowing those same linens were used to clean up a patient with diarrhea! Don't even get me started with the bathrooms haha. Housekeeping cleans the rooms after a patient is discharged, so the rooms are sanitized, but how can I use the same toliet knowing a week ealier a patient with C-Diff had explosive diarrhea and it went everywhere. If I was a patient and had my own way, I would have a private room and bring my own linens and stack the toliet seat with those seat covers!
I'm not the kind of person that grosses out easily. Poop, urine, vomit, blood etc seen them all and still can hold a meal down But when it comes using those linens as a patient, knowing what I know, my stomach churns!
But when it comes using those linens as a patient, knowing what I know, my stomach churns!