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!
oh yea, and I just read suedamoan's post---(LOL, I *just* got your name---how CLEVER!!! ) and that reminded me, when my hubby had surgery at a NICE facility, I noticed there was some old, dried blood on the parts of the stretcher ( wayyy underneath him--where the apparatus for the wheels/ etc. are).....it bothered me....A LOT! To think
that stretcher didn't get TOTALLY cleaned as well as it could have.....YUCK! I just hoped
and prayed the mattress and rails had been cleaned PROPERLY!!!!
Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
I'm not concerned about the linens or washcloths. What grosses me out are the privacy curtains, which are pretty much never washed and rarely replaced.
yet more evidence of the superiority (not) of the US system ...
in every NHS hospital i've worked in curtains are swapped for clean ones on a regular basis/ on discharge and extra changes after getting contaminated or following infection control concerns ... the exception was the ED when they were swapped weekly or if they got dirty / contaminated...
Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
oh yea, and I just read suedamoan's post---(LOL, I *just* got your name---how CLEVER!!! ) and that reminded me, when my hubby had surgery at a NICE facility, I noticed there was some old, dried blood on the parts of the stretcher ( wayyy underneath him--where the apparatus for the wheels/ etc. are).....it bothered me....A LOT! To think
that stretcher didn't get TOTALLY cleaned as well as it could have.....YUCK! I just hoped
and prayed the mattress and rails had been cleaned PROPERLY!!!!
again another demonstration of how 'inferior' the NHS is where beds get cleaned every day and deep cleaned on discharge ...
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
yet more evidence of the superiority (not) of the US system ...
in every NHS hospital i've worked in curtains are swapped for clean ones on a regular basis/ on discharge and extra changes after getting contaminated or following infection control concerns ... the exception was the ED when they were swapped weekly or if they got dirty / contaminated...
What is your problem? You've been all over several threads, bashing the US for one thing or another. In case you missed the news, the Revolutionary War has been over for a long time.
The NHS has had more than its share of problems, FWIW.
Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.
What is your problem? You've been all over several threads, bashing the US for one thing or another. In case you missed the news, the Revolutionary War has been over for a long time.
The NHS has had more than its share of problems, FWIW.
I am sick and fed up of the system I work in, it's outcomes , my education and my experience being bashed constantly , yet when i point out that the supposedly superior system i'm supposed to envy is inadequate or that supposedly inferior services are in fact delivering a better service than the 'superior' ones...
and just to add disposable washcloths are cheaper then reusable and don't have those hygiene concerns ...
Specializes in Oncology; medical specialty website.
I'm pretty sure most posters from the US are aware that there are deep problems within our health care system. That said, your sitting on the sidelines taking pot-shots does nothing to help.
I didn't see anyone bashing your country or its health care system in the threads I referred to. If you found something offensive, you should have reported it to a moderator.
I didn't see anyone bashing your country or its health care system in the threads I referred to. If you found something offensive, you should have reported it to a moderator.
I've certainly seen any number of jibes about the supposed inferiority of universal health care in general, and the NHS in particular, so I can see how someone working there could respond as Zippy did.
But when it comes using those linens as a patient, knowing what I know, my stomach churns!
) and that reminded me, when my hubby had surgery at a NICE facility, I noticed there was some old, dried blood on the parts of the stretcher ( wayyy underneath him--where the apparatus for the wheels/ etc. are).....it bothered me....A LOT! To think
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Ever had a bad menstrual period? :)
The washcloths got trashed (and baby wipes stocked up on)....but sheets are expensive:)