This week's award (and I do realise that I have not presented an award for three weeks now, it has not been for lack of possible winners) goes to the Health Protection Agency for realising that the practice of nurses taking their uniforms home to wash, rather than being washed by the hospital, could be helping the spread of infections such as MRSA and C-Diff.
Whilst it is surely common-sense that a nurse washing her uniform at home is less likely to ensure the correct temperature and washing cycle is reached/used than is an in-hospital laundry.
So Nurses washing uniforms at home is not as good a guarantee of clean uniforms as washing them professionally - "No shit, Sherlock"
What the report I read did not mention is that if a nurse washes her uniform at home she is also more than likely to wear it whilst travelling to work and that means that the nice clean uniform is subjected to exposure to the germs and dirt that the nurse will encounter on his or her journey to work. In my day nurses were not allowed to wear their uniforms out of the hospital, why was that rule changed?
Whilst it is surely common-sense that a nurse washing her uniform at home is less likely to ensure the correct temperature and washing cycle is reached/used than is an in-hospital laundry.
So Nurses washing uniforms at home is not as good a guarantee of clean uniforms as washing them professionally - "No shit, Sherlock"
What the report I read did not mention is that if a nurse washes her uniform at home she is also more than likely to wear it whilst travelling to work and that means that the nice clean uniform is subjected to exposure to the germs and dirt that the nurse will encounter on his or her journey to work. In my day nurses were not allowed to wear their uniforms out of the hospital, why was that rule changed?
Deadly infectious diseases are a wonderful way to remove sick people from an already overloaded health care system. Killing a sick patient will save money for real health care like abortions, sex "reassignments" and other politically correct priorities.
ReplyDeleteMichael Gene