Water Pitchers

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Hospitals and(or) Health care facilities: Do your patients still recieve water pitchers, with ice and fresh water? If so who delivers them? Nursing or some other department?

we do a liter jug of water which our domestic ladies fill at 0700 every morning and then all the staff refill them when empty, we arent allowed to do ice due to infection control reasons! (oh daft i know, if a patient requires ice ie labour or cryo therapy then we contact kitchens who send a bag of shop bought ice to us)

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Specializes in Spinal Cord injuries, Emergency+EMS.

ice and infection control :

it's because you can't adequately sterilise the entire liquid tract of an ice machine even if you empty and clean the hopper several times a day ... has anyone worked in McD, BK or similar what do they do to their ice machines .... because i know what you have to do with draught beer and post mix fizzy lines ...

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volunteers do that at my hospital

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ice and infection control :

it's because you can't adequately sterilise the entire liquid tract of an ice machine even if you empty and clean the hopper several times a day ... has anyone worked in McD, BK or similar what do they do to their ice machines .... because i know what you have to do with draught beer and post mix fizzy lines ...

Thanks :yeah: i shall be sure to tell that to my next patient who moans about no ice.

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Specializes in Critical Care. CVICU. Adult and Peds PACU..

We have plastic pitchers (about 800mL) that we fill as needed. However d/t infection control we don't take them back to the ice machine, we have disposable plastic liners that we bring in to the patient's room. Also, RNs and aids fill them up.

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