Re: OT-Bennie/hospital uniforms

[Guest guest]

-All,

We never wore our scrubs home. The scrubs we worked in, stayed in the hospital

linen system and we wore " our " clothes home.

Of course, this was military or VA hospital. The quality control officer

monitored this. Nurses can bring home MRSA from their rings.

Those that refused to take them off for hand washing are stupid. Germs hide

underneath and below.

The quality control officer had some powder she used to show people how germs

still remain after hand-washing using a black light.

The cracks in your hands and fingernails. She then showed proper hand washing

techniques. I used the information to do a presentation at elementary schools.

The kids got frightened when the saw the germs " light up " and rubbed their hands

excessively.

I agree with Lyndi, there are so many ways they come and go and housekeepers are

culprit carriers in some hospitals and the cleaners they use some time

that

Two websites address this trend:

www.consumerhealthratings.com/index.php?action...cat_id=154 - shows MRSA by

state and you can click on it and see the percentage in your state or just type

in consumer healthratings.com and the tool bar will direct you to this and other

interesting articles.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groundbreaking-report-shows-alarming-mrs\

a-infection-rates-at-us-hospitals-58296362.html

When I had my back fusion surgery, they left IV ports in me from surgery for

over four days (24 hours is max when not in use and flushed)

I had five two in my neck, one on each side, one in each hand, and an arm IV. A

nurse did not bath me for three days and my surgical sited was not covered with

a bandage. I also did not have a BM for a week. I was placed in a step down

unit and glad I was, the doctors immediately noticed the IV sites demanded they

be taken out, give me laxative, finally even an enema.

In the step down unit, I got a bath, pain meds every three hours, Physical

Therapists that visited me three times a day, and I excelled.

I will not go to that hospital again as their excuse is they did not have enough

Nurses to cover the floor. This is bad as it was a med surg ward.

I will insist to go directly to the step down unit.

Although this is off topic, it is a subject we all need to know when we enter

the hospitals or clinics.

Bennie

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[Guest guest]

M. wrote:

> Why can't hospitals use scrubs, but bleach them and wash them on insanely hot

water at the hospital? They wouldn't even need to be white if they were made

with bleach safe fabric. My wife and I bought a bunch of towels at Target that

are bleach safe, even though they are bright colors (they have black and other

dark colors available too). If they can make towels bleach safe, why not scrubs?

>

> Heck, if the hospitals are too cheap for bleach safe colored fabric, why can't

there be white scrubs? (At least they're still scrubs) Although, personally, I

prefer that the hospital staff dress in bright colors, it's cheerier that way.

Steve,

Read the Consumers Health Ratings.com website and what you said should be done

and used to be done. We used to take them off before we went home at CS (Central

Supply) and pick up clean one next day. That was the VA and we always had the

hospital stamped on them.

Bennie