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Having spent many months of my life in hospital rooms, even just a brightly colored paint job really makes things feel better. A lot of older hospitals have ver
by covercash 7y ago
Having spent many months of my life in hospital rooms, even just a brightly colored paint job really makes things feel better. A lot of older hospitals have very sterile, bland colors on the floors and walls that would make even a healthy happy human feel depressed.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoReason for that though: it's easier to see blood and other fluids on a bland / white wall. Since fluids are a common way for infectious diseases to spread, they need to be cleaned thoroughly and completely. Source: wife is a nurse in the ER.
- JulianMorrison 7y agoHave you ever looked at a seemingly clean surface with a UV light? It's surprising how much invisible ick there is, and it pops out since it visibly fluoresces. This might be a useful way to see the spills?
- Fomite 7y agoA number of hospitals actually use UV machine to clean rooms.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoYes, that's another verification tool they use for highly contagious (think HIV / AIDS / HEP-C) patients. However, those lights are usually handheld and small. Expecting cleaning staff to cover 100% of all walls each time they cleaned it (which is multiple times a day) is prone to failure. Plus those lights work best when the room is dark. Which means you could only clean it at night. And some rooms have multiple patients, so now the cleaner people will need to work around them / have them be OK with the room being dark for a while. This can work, but again not every patient will be comfortable with a "crime scene investigation" happening while they recover.
- anonoholic 7y ago"think HIV / AIDS / HEP-C" Think viable transmission vectors for those diseases.
- joe5150 7y agoI have never witnessed walls in a hospital room being cleaned
- hanniabu 7y ago> they need to be cleaned thoroughly and completely I don't know what hospitals you're going to but the ones in the US don't qualify that statement. Would I say they're filthy? No, but they certainly don't look like they're cleaned often, thoroughly, or completely.
- covercash 7y agoAgreed, pretty much every hospital room I’ve been in has mystery stains on the ceiling. It’s so common that I’d point them out to my family members and we’d wonder out loud what the cause could have been. Edit: there was even one room where I put on rubber gloves and used the disinfectant wipes from the janitor’s cart to clean dried blood from my IV pole and the bed rails.
- bin0 7y agoThat depends to which tier of hospital you go. On the other end, of course, I have a friend who had to get treatment in Italy and was required to bring her own needles. This was in-patient surgery. Also, the nurse tried to re-use them and called her a "wasteful American" when she told her to get a clean one.
- jaclaz 7y ago>On the other end, of course, I have a friend who had to get treatment in Italy and was required to bring her own needles. This was in-patient surgery. Also, the nurse tried to re-use them and called her a "wasteful American" when she told her to get a clean one. Oww, come on, that is simply not true, in the last - say - 100 years in Italy (post WW1 emergencies). So, either your friend is very, very old, or she is making it up for the benefit of folklore. Until the '60's or maybe early '70's syringes and needles were not "use once and throwaway" but of course they were washed after every use and sterilized before a new use.
- covercash 7y agoMy experiences took place in hospitals in and around the Philadelphia area, certainly not low tier.
- enraged_camel 7y agoER makes up a small portion of hospitals though.