Children Visiting Hospitals

[grandmoon]

Why do people take children to visit patients in hospital then let the children run around the corridors and in and out the wards.

Just visited a friend in hospital who has had a work accident and is in the orthopaedic ward.  While we were there 3 children came in to the ward and were crawling under the beds etc.  I took them out to the nurses station and the nurse wasn't very happy as they have been there most day and are just run riot.

[mum*of*goldens]

Most adult wards do not cater for kids, there are not play areas with toys etc. For a start the wards I have been on both as nurse, and patient, don't have spare rooms designated as a playroom, nor do they stock toys etc. I have visions of someone elderly tripping over a toy left in the hallway by a child.

When I was an inpatient for 3 and a half weeks a couple of years ago there was a woman in the ward who had 2 kids that were running in and out of the room, getting in the way of cleaners and people pushing trolleys and beds, screaming and carrying on. Nothing worse when you have someone recovering from an anaesthetic in the same room or not feeling well. The nurses would repeatedly ask the parents to control their kids, which worked for about 10 minutes, then they were off again.

It's not up to the hospital wards to provide play areas for kids, apart from places like Childrens wards or in Accident and Emergency Departments.

Parents should keep them in line and quiet in view of the fact that people in hospital are sick, get very little sleep at night [what with buzzers and being disturbed by other patients], and just want some peace, not a 2, 3 or 4 year olds who see the ward as a new playground for them to explore.

[shhh_its_me]

Amy complains a lot. Everyone else does the wrong thing. But not her. Nuh uh. 

[azureline**]

B-)

I think children need boundaries....... I would have been mortified had my children misbehaved in a hospital, I recall having to take mine to ICU after my stepdad's lung cancer surgery..... the staff were having fits about my children being left in the hallway, 5 of them aged newborn to 8 yrs old. 2 were in a pram, 3 holding the pram, the 8 yo read to the littlies. Not one of them caused a problem for the 30mins I was there, the staff were so surprised and I was thinking "what is wrong with you people?" 😮

Nowadays, some parents do not prepare themselves, children get bored after 30 minutes, they need stuff to do, read, play with. They cannot be expected to sit and do nothing surely?

[*crikey*mate*]

would they be in the orthopaedic ward?

no, but maybe the kids wandered off

yeah, I know, it's not a good thing - one of the benefits of being able to have a private room - cos if its not someone's kids, it'll be some other annoyance - and I do agree it is rough letting your kids wander around disturbing other people

but I do know that when my kids, or dad have been really crook - my attention on anything else and manners weren't my highest priority.

One of my kids died and another lived close to the precipice for 3 weeks - can't say I was thinking real clearly about very much and had I have not had help from the community with my other kids for the second child, I would have had no option but to take them with me - cos when you're asked about organ donation and that each 10 minutes they survive is a medical mystery - ya kinda don't think about too mucvh else, and there was no way in the world I was gonna be anywhere but right beside her bed, or standing outside that operating theatre.

my dad was just crook - but it was the first time I had ever known him to be sick at all - and it really scared me - deep down, I knew it was unlikely he was gonna die - but he just looked so small - and he was in so much pain - dunno how to explain it better - but there was no way I was leaving his bedside until he looked like my dad again iykwim

[daydream**believer]

Amy complains a lot. Everyone else does the wrong thing. But not her. Nuh uh. 

when i do something wrong, I am more than happy for people to complain to or about me

[the_hawk*]

Fancy allowing kids to run around in a hospital playing on the floors where there are all sorts of infectious material, have people no common sense these days. 😮

[azureline**]

Infectious material? 😮

Hospitals are very clean....... they have practices to ensure infectious material does not contaminate floors, beds, visitors, staff etc.....

[the_hawk*]

Infectious material? 😮

Hospitals are very clean....... they have practices to ensure infectious material does not contaminate floors, beds, visitors, staff etc.....

LOL I take it you dont know what lurks in them.

and do you really think a quick clean once a day keeps them clean, its not what you can see that you should worry about

[the_hawk*]

here is an education for you http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&rlz=1W1SAVJ_enAU509&biw=698&bih=348&sclient=psy-ab&q=hospital+bugs+infections&rlz=1W1SAVJ_enAU509&oq=hospital+bugs+&gs_l=hp.1.1.0l4.47016.47016.3.49219.1.1.0.0.0.0.219.219.2-1.1.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.4.psy-ab.xzOarRdxwg0&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.42661473,d.dGI&fp=e06c2eb1f0a03823

[0z_girl]

I would have to agree.

I would never walk barefoot on a carpetted hospital floor, knowing what has been on them.