Nurses answer please!

Are there any nurses on this forum who can explain if hospital rooms are routinely cleaned between patients & how this is done?

Elver, I sanitize eveything in the room as soon as a family member gets into it.

I take my own disposable gloves (lots of them) and I purchase the spray and sanitizer wipes hospitals use. Get it off the net. I sanitize the all the hard parts of the bed, intercom first. Then the bed "tray", the phone, the cart the phone is on and the inside of the drawers in this cart. Then I sanitize the sink area all handles anything a person MIGHT touch.

Be sure to get the undersides of everything like the rails and chair arms...etc.. That is where lots of stuff hides.

Then I sanitize the toilet, I spray and/or wipe down all of the floors. Never let patient touch the floor with bare feet nurses drag germs in on shoes. Make sure patient takes off booties or slippers before they get into bed. I had two booties one for walking on floors and one to put on in bed.    '

I sanitze the chairs people sit in I sanitze all shelves. Anything and everything. At one hospital they had chairs that were like outdoor material that had pores in the materal. I found blood on these chairs in the pores. Sprayed and wiped. YUK!

I always asked the nurse to wash/sanitize their hands when they walked into the room or touched my husband. I asked they sanitize the blood pressure cuff before use.

Oh, If there is a computer in the room sanitize the key board and the screen that the nurse touches...every time they use it. Germs, germs, germs!

I NEVER left my husband I slept in the room at all times. I got his water and ice. I did everything I could so that nurses did not have to do it.

WHY did I do all of this...because no person cleaned a room like I did, and you can't believe the dirt and blood I got off of chairs and beds!

You can't depend on the hospital to clean believe me! I did this over 5 times with all the operations my husband had over the years.

LOL, a good friend of mine who was an old army nurse asked me how to sanaitze her husband's hospital room and what I did because my husband NEVER had an infection with all of his operations.

You are the only line of defense especially when it comes to nurses sanitizing their hands.   They just forget and that is when they pass on crap to your family member. Nurses are just human and they forget as they are busy.

Staff who clean really try hard but they have no skin in the game, you have skin in the game your family member.

I am no professional just a germ nut!

P.S. always ask what meds they are giving and what dose. Makes them look and think about it. Many people die because of wrong meds.

Hope this helps!

Yep, I do hotel rooms also and yes stethoscopes are germy.

No one cares about old people so nursing homes are pits. They use the cheapest help they can. Just had a friends mother have her arm broken and a leg broken in one months time. Poor care!