What is your unit like - Private, Semi-private, or Multi-bed rooms?

[abbaking]

Just curious and bored - What is your units' rooms set up? Are there mostly private or semi-private rooms or do you have multi-bed rooms?

We have mostly semi-private (2 beds) and some three beds rooms - It call be hectic and a tight squeeze in those 3 bed rooms.

[Tait, MSN, RN]

We just finished remodeling our hospital. It's ALL private rooms with recliner or roll-away bed in each room, and a table with 2-3 chairs for comfortable visiting. Unfortunately, though, sometimes with all the extras in there, we don't have much room. We found out the hard way during a code that failed d/t having to take time to move stuff out to be able to get the appropriate staff in there as well as crash cart/equipment.

Scary!

[frellyou]

Public hospital so the rooms are single or double. We used to have 8 single, 10 double and a four bed bay (great for moving lifting machine etc in) but moved last year and now have 18 single rooms and 8 double rooms - with ratios two of those beds are usually closed.

Is this usual in Victoria? Up in NSW 4 to a room seems to be standard, with a few private rooms for isolation (although one of the older wards I was on for clinical didn't have any!) I kind of like the four bedded rooms, it's easy to check on all your patients at once and there's less chance of someone being forgotten (yes, it did happen to a nurse I was buddying with, though to be fair it was one thing in a long list of stuff that went wrong that shift. :icon_roll)

[pednursedeb]

I guess I should consider myself lucky. We have mostly private rooms with a few semiprivate. It is bad enough in a 2 bed room, much less 3 or 4.

[ayla2004, ASN, RN]

7 bedded bays stanard, some 3-4 bedded bays. with 2-4 single rooms per ward.

hopwistal is a mixture of victorian 60, 80 and 90 buildings. new wing 50% single rooms 50% 4 bed bays.

[MedSurgeMess]

7 bedded bays stanard, some 3-4 bedded bays. with 2-4 single rooms per ward.

hopwistal is a mixture of victorian 60, 80 and 90 buildings. new wing 50% single rooms 50% 4 bed bays.

Yikes!

[NurseKatie08, MSN]

We have 26 beds total on my unit--2 private rooms & 12 semi-private rooms.

[MichelleB34]

I'm curious, those of you who mentioned you have 4 beds to a room? Where do you live? Our hospital has only semiprivate and private inpatient rooms. Our old ER trauma/cardiac room had 2 stretchers on each side of the room (total of 4). Our ER now has all private rooms. The PACU is the only place that holds more than 2 patients with curtains in between stretchers.

[talaxandra]

Is this usual in Victoria?

We are an ID (and other specialty) unit, so need a lot of isolation rooms. Only 4 of them are negatively ventilated, which has been an issue with H1N1 but so far so good.

When we remodelled (predominantly cosmetic/superficial changes) some bright spark decided to include allegedly waterproof carpet. It may be quieter but it looks awful several years on. At least the patient rooms and bathrooms have lino.

[vivacious1healer]

The hospital where I work has all huge private rooms and large bathrooms with showers, the kind that an oversized w/c could fit into and turn around.

Employees tend to c/o the loooooong hallways because of the 30 private rooms on each floor...but I see it as a way to get my exercise for those 12 hours!

[Sonjailana]

We have over 40 private beds on my floor. Hearing about the code with all the crap in the room makes me feel better about trying to clean all the stuff out of the rooms. I'm anal in some ways--but like, I try to keep hygiene stuff in the bathroom and dressing change supplies elsewhere..but no matter what I do, I find briefs and ointment in my dressing supplies. Eww.. Diarrhea plus *sterilish* dressings? Eww!

[JomoNurse]

Our 4 beds to a room goes like this: the room is larger than the typical room. We have 2 beds (head first) against the west wall, and 2 beds against the easyt wall. All of the patients can directly look at one another if our old, run-down, 70s curtains aren't pulled shut. Sometimes they break though. :/

I work in an inner city hospital that serves as is in the "ghetto". It's not uncommon to see a cockroach (lots of these actually) or mouse running down the hallway at night.

[MichelleB34]

Curious Jomo Nurse your age is 94? Was that a typo?