Your hospital room is clean. Right?

Question

I work for a pretty large hospital and they have just passed a policy for when the ER reaches a certain capcity they have to start moving patients up to the nursing floors to rooms wether they are clean room or dirty room. I know how it will help decrease the waiting time in the ER but then I see theis as a infectious hazard especially when the patient immune system is not functioning at it's best it seems like we are putting them in a more exposed enviroment for infection. The ER reaches this capcity at least once a week mostly thur-sat...I find this disturbing...Would it disturb you as a patient to find out that you are paying for a dirty room?

Answer 1

It would depend on how they are defining a clean room. If they simply mean one that nursing has changed the sheets on the bed, but housekeeping hasn't made it in to mop and wipe down the surfaces, then no- it wouldn't bother me. An ER full of patients is a veritable germ soup. Presumably your rooms are being cleaned at least once a day, and the patient who left was healthy enough to dicharge. So there would be far fewer germs floating around to be caught by the new patient. Put it this way, if you are there waiting to pass your kidney stone, do you really want to be elbows and nose next to the guy hacking up chunks of who knows what? Or might that not freshly mopped room with just you and a sleeping roomie look better? As long as the sheets are clean and the nurses are practicing good nursing care, who cares if the window sill is sparkling clean? I don't imagine we are actually talking dirty as in you get the bed as soon as the dead guy gets shifted off to the morgue here. If it really concerns you, talk to the infection control folks. They had to sign off on the idea, and no hospital wants to risk a mass outbreak. Look a little closer before you start people up on this sort of thing. Plus the sooner you can sort out the ER and cut the wait, the healthier everybody stays.

Answer 2

Just how dirty is the room? sleeping in a bed that previously had a patient in it and was not washed, is not very sanitary. If they know this happens once a week why dont they clean the rooms in preparation for it? Hospitals are not clean places. Its not just the beds and furniture, its the employees-many, many do not wash their hands and that is one thing that spreads disease worse than anything else. Its not just the nurses and aides, its the kitchen staff, doctors, pharmacists etc. While a dirty room may look bad, it is the bacteria you cant see that will really make people sick.

Answer 3

Yes, it would. On the other hand, if I needed to be in hospital, and had a compromised immune system, I would hope that a clean room would be available. If not, then I would take any room if I were sick enough.

Answer 4

a minimum of greater human beings would be waiting to pass to the well-being facility in the event that they like it. and fogeys of toddlers born with congenital ailments won't ought to stress that their young toddlers isn't lined down the line. human beings die on a daily basis interior the U. S. from loss of scientific care. If cleansing a room is the biggest subject you will see, you should artwork on your compassion. FAIL

Answer 5

You bet it disturbs me, and I spent two weeks in ICU and my best friend is a doctor, so I know what you saying....I felt lucky to get out of there with out something worse...like death..

Answer 6

the easiest place to catch a respiratory infection is in a hospital.

Answer 7

Always, why not???

What it means if the hospital room is not cleaning???

The room is cleaned by the latest UVC-light products...!!
Neat and clean..!!

Answer 8

of course