I find it very hard to care for my patients in multi-bed rooms . My hospital is very old and outdated. The patient rooms consist of 2 bed, 3 bed, and 4 bed rooms.
The 3 bed room is by far the most difficult room to care for a patient. Doing a simple transfer from the PACU gurney into the bed can be a pain in the neck. Imagine this for a minute: You need to transfer a Post-op patient from the gurney into the third bed. The rooms are small in general. The first and second beds need to be turned sideways to allow the gurney to pass through. All of the crap in the room needs to be moved in the hallway for a few minutes (chairs, linen hamper, etc.) Then, because of the configuration of the walls, you need to slant the third bed at an angle and then you BARELY have enough room to do the actual transfer.
Then you need to remove the gurney, turn the first and second beds back to there regular positions and bring back all the chairs and so forth back into the room.
Just Venting here - Its a pain in the butt! This is bad enough for a basic medical unit but in the ICU - its torture with 3 beds in there!!!
