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.

[azureline**]

I haven't been in a hospital with carpeted floors. However, I can say I have not been in many hospitals recently....... apart from emergency..... maternity.... medical wards.

I would also think infectious diseased patients are isolated?

[the_hawk*]

I haven't been in a hospital with carpeted floors. However, I can say I have not been in many hospitals recently....... apart from emergency..... maternity.... medical wards.

I would also think infectious diseased patients are isolated?

emergency is one of the worst places, hepC, aids, and people with undiagnosed infectious disease, there sick and injured, that's why they are there, bleeding from fighting, sports injuries, car accidents and then people let kids play on the floor ?:| 😮

uncontrolled kids how do you know they haven't gone into a room with an MRSA patient and then come back to your loved one that has open wounds. They don't have separate areas for these patients only a sign on the door about disinfecting and gowning up before entry and leaving the room.

[cherry*135]

They could go back to the days when children under 12 (or was it 16?) weren't allowed to visit patients in hospital.

My Mum was in hospital for about 6 weeks when I was 5. My Aunty took me to see her, I had to sit outside the window and wave to her (small country hospital). You think someone could have smuggled me in for 5 mins.

It didn't worry me too much at the time. I got an icecream and I liked staying with my aunt/uncle/cousins.

Also when my sister had a baby, I wasn't old enough to go in and visit them at the hospital.

[the_hawk*]

am3 its not about kids not being able to visit, I am all for kids visiting but they must be under control, its about them behaving and respecting other patients right to recover / die in peace   

[cherry*135]

There are germs floating around in hospitals. Superbugs that don't get killed off with normal cleaning.

My youngest was in the childrens ward in hospital for 10 days and got a bad gastric bug...Hosp Dr's said she would have picked it up in there.

The play room in the ward - the soft toys were feral.. grubby looking things (visitors kids playing with them as well as child patients)... other toys could have sick person sneezing on them and leaving germs -- germ hotbeds.

I used to sweep the floor and tidy the play room before letting my daughter in there.

[azureline**]

am3 its not about kids not being able to visit, I am all for kids visiting but they must be under control, its about them behaving and respecting other patients right to recover / die in peace   

yes, totally agree...... where ever they are, not just in hospitals.

[2106greencat]

Just been reading a very similar thread (screaming kids in shopping centre's/food courts) and as much as I can understand a parent not being able to get a child looked after for any reason (no support group, can not afford daycare, baby sitting etc) what does amaze me is the way some children are often just left to run and do their own thing in places such as these. Is the 'stranger danger' talk a thing of the past these days?

[cherry*135]

am3 its not about kids not being able to visit, I am all for kids visiting but they must be under control, its about them behaving and respecting other patients right to recover / die in peace   

I know, I was just remembering back to a time when NO children were allowed in.

[mum*of*goldens]

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. 😮

I was going to mention that.

Yes the floors are cleaned each day, but if someone has a spill of urine, blood or whatever after the cleaners have gone or aren't around, the area is often mopped up with a towel or something like that.Maybe someone will go grab a mop, but often that's not the case. Plus I have seen surgeons leave the operating theatre and have walked through blood etc spilled, walk out of the unit, and go onto the wards still wearing the same footwear.

Imagine a toddler crawling around on the floor after Dr Smith has just stood there with his dirty theatre boots on.

[yes Drs do that, nurses are much better trained]

[mum*of*goldens]

Hospitals are notorious for picking up bugs, superbugs and the like. That's why they try to avoid long term stays where possible, and especially hospitalisation for those with immunity problems due to chemo etc.