Guest guest Posted November 22, 2000 Report Share Posted November 22, 2000 : the visiting policy seems pretty common across the country. I found it most strange after I had DS2, having spent three months (pre- birth) in the maternity ward, I went back a week after he was born to see some friends I had made whilst in there and the staff were very sniffy about letting me in with my week-old baby who had only been discharged from their ward three days earlier!! Ann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2000 Report Share Posted November 22, 2000 It's just so ridiculous, I feel like hanging my head in shame and ringing a bell shouting " unclean " !!! ;-) How could they object to a 3 week old baby, for heaven's sake. She wouldn't have been vaccinated (if indeed, that would be a concern)! It's amazing to find this out, and then hear from other people (on this list I believe) how tiddle has been left on a hospital floor for three or more days! Regards >>Ann wrote: : the visiting policy seems pretty common across the country. I found it most strange after I had DS2, having spent three months (pre- birth) in the maternity ward, I went back a week after he was born to see some friends I had made whilst in there and the staff were very sniffy about letting me in with my week-old baby who had only been discharged from their ward three days earlier!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2000 Report Share Posted November 22, 2000 Or some horror stories for you all on hygeine in hospitals: A gentlemen dislodged his venflon (thing they put drips into) whilst using the 'Ladies' toilet. Blood was all over the walls, floors, mirror, toilet seat etc. And it was the only toilet specifically designated for females on the ward. It happened in the early morning and was eventually cleaned by a cleaner at around teatime. Not disinfected though - I watched her clean it with a damp paper towel. A couple of my cardboard bedpans, into which I save all my urine when in hospital!, have been left so long that it has started to evaporated. - from afternoon one day until morning the next. I now seive, measure and test all my own stuff - they make such a fuss if your fluid balance is way off. Oh and put the bedpans into the mascerator. Many times I have been in the sluice (somewhere no patient should ever go but I do and have permission because of the evaporating bedpan scenario) and the bedpans, bottles and catheter bags, full of blood stained urine, have been left all day. Catheter bags are not so big a problem as they are more or less sealed, but they do hang around for ages. Toilets and bathrooms with blood stained urine liberally spread about and not cleaned for a long time - won't be quote on how long but one ward I was on was particulary bad as they had difficulty keeping cleaners - I wonder why? these bathrooms were being used by patients bathing for surgery as well as post op patients. Whats the point if you end up less clean after than you were before! If it has been my ward I would have got the nurses/ health care assistants to clean the toilets and bathrooms for the sake of hygeine. In fact I used to clean the faeces off the walls of elderly mentally ill patients when I was a carer for a while after Emma was born. Better this than have them play with it! and scrubbed old ladies finger nails - eeeuurghh - wont go into that! But hey! That's the life of a female urology patient. Men are disgusting. Sue H. wrote: > It's amazing to find this out, and then hear from other people (on this list > I believe) how tiddle has been left on a hospital floor for three or more > days! > > Regards > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2000 Report Share Posted November 22, 2000 >Or some horror stories for you all on hygeine in hospitals: Can't remember who suggested it when I was pg - maybe midwives - but we were told it might be a good idea to bring in our own bathroom cleaning liquids and equip if we were planning to use the bathroom..... -- Sue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2000 Report Share Posted November 23, 2000 > >Can't remember who suggested it when I was pg - maybe midwives - but we >were told it might be a good idea to bring in our own bathroom cleaning >liquids and equip if we were planning to use the bathroom..... Our ANT suggests it in classes. Lynda Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2000 Report Share Posted November 23, 2000 Bleeeeuuuugggghhhhh. Lesley --------------- Sue said......Or some horror stories for you all on hygeine in hospitals: A gentlemen dislodged his venflon (thing they put drips into) whilst using the 'Ladies' toilet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 23, 2000 Report Share Posted November 23, 2000 Well, I'm thoroughly disgusted. All that Sue said, plus the report that just came out saying there are 100,000 infections caught in hospital and 5,000 deaths from those infections scare me. So does the NCT lobby about this as well? Phyllis __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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