Overview:
Hospital bed making entails the general cleaning of all hospital bed related equipment or material to suite the health condition of the patient.
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This is because hospital bed making looks at ensuring the cleanliness of hospital beds, ensuring that the beds are free from crumbs and creases, and most importantly ensuring that the pillows are well kept and arranged to attain to the need of the hospital patient’s.
Recently, observation from different hospital attendants revealed that most of the diseases suffered by most patient’s in the hospital are caused by poor cleanliness which was why most hospital has placed an authority to manage and check the hospital beds and equipment and ensure they’re kept very clean.
However, let’s look what hospital bed making is all about.
What is Hospital Bed Making
Hospital bed making is the process of arranging different type of bed in the hospital with the intention of making hospital patient’s enjoy some level of comfort with regards to his or her health condition.
In most cases, bed making is 
done to make the patient health position suitable for a particular situation. It is done to keep the ward very clean and friendly for treatment.
A hospital bed itself is an important part of hospital equipment generally used by the hospitalized clients.
Hospital beds are also found in long-term care facilities, as well as patients’ homes. The objective of hospital bed should be selected for its impact on patients’ comfort, safety, medical condition, and ability to change positions.
Dirty liens should not be allowed near the ward to prevent spread of diseases. Most bed are specifically made for patient’s with respiratory diseases where breathing is the major problem or where patient’s is having heart failure.
It was discovered that when a patient is having breathing problem, the patient’s enjoy comfort sitting at the extreme upright position.
The aim of this bed is to ensure the patient is as comfortable as possible when sitting upright position.
This kind of bed can be regarded as “Cardiac bed”. This article will not make sense if we fail to talk about the “8 things you must do in hospital bed Making” let’s talk about them one after the other read now.
8 Things You Must Do In Hospital Bed Making
The following should be given proper attention during hospital bed making.
1. Availability of bed making equipment’s
2. Wast bin removal
3. Avoidance of Conversation
4. Extra Help
5. Patient’s Exposure
6. Bed suitability
7. Hand washing
8. The patient face should not be covered with blanket. (Covering of the patient face)
We are going to talk about them one after the other.
Availability of bed making equipment
during bed making, all the needed equipment should be provided before starting. It is done to ensure all the required items to put the bed in other for use are in place.
These will enable the nurses to plan and arrange the beds in-line with different health condition of the patient’s.
However, it’s advisable that nurses should make sure they collect all the needed equipment’s for bed making before starting.
If it happened that no provision was made, the nurses should report to the appropriate authorities.
Waste bin removal
During bed making, the nurses should make sure the waste bins are kept away from the hospital ward where bed making is to be carried out.
Also, a situation where the clients relatives happens to dump waste within the bed environs, he or she should be given an orientation by the nurses on the need to keep the ward clean always.
Avoidance of Conversation
During bed making, conversations should only happen among patient and should not be on individual cases between the nurses.
That’s conversation during bed making must not be on a personal matter between the nurses.
It should be a discussion that has high level of impact to the patient’s health or with regard to how bed making process will be carried out.
Extra help
Relevant or additional assistance should be made available and, if necessary, should be invited upon to assist in lifting the patient.
The nurses should show some level of concern to this rule, this is because if anything happens and the patient’s needs an additional help, the person will likely assist as at when due.
Patient Exposure
During hospital bed making, the patient’s should be allowed to enjoy some level of secrecy, that’s the patient must not be exposed for any reason.
The nurses must put this rule into consideration to ensure that the patient won’t be exposed to more deadly diseases. Also, visitors that will enter the ward should be regulated to an extent.
Suitability of the bed
The hospital bed should be arranged in such a way that it’ll suite the treatment of different health diseases.
Such as shock, skin and respiratory diseases, heart failure, surgery, stroke, and many other dangerous infections. It should be made in way that the patient can easily be put in it without stress.
During bed making, the arrangement of the bed should be looked upon to ensure it is suitable for treatment.
Hand washing
During bed making, the nurses should make sure there hand is properly washed before and after bed making process.
This is to prevent the spread of diseases among the patient’s and also to prevent the nurses from getting infected. Hand washing is one of the rules to be considered during bed making process.
Covering of the patient face
For any reason, the patient face must not be covered by bed cover of any type. The objective is to protect the clients from more disease exposure and also to allow the easy flow of air.
Also, room should be made free for easy movement or turning of the patient when placing the top sheet over the patient.
Different type of bed making
1. Closed bed: used when the bed will be empty for a while. It will stay clean, not exposing the linens.
2. Open bed: used when the care recipient is out of bed for a while but needs to get into it easily. The top sheet of the closed bed is fan-folded down.
3. Occupied bed: used when the bed is made with the care recipient in it and not able or permitted to get out of the bed.
Essence of bed making
The following are the major reasons for bed making
1. To tidy and keep the ward very clean
2. Bed making helps to make the patient fill relaxed and comfortable
3. It is done to avert the spread of infection
4. bed making makes it easy for the treatment of different kind of health condition.
5. Bed making to an extent helps in reducing the pains suffered by the patient’s
6. To help keep the lien bin very neat and clean.
Definition of terms
Blanket: It is a synthetic wool like material which is mostly used to cover bed or necessary warmth with minimal weight. It should be washed when a patient is discharged.
Mattresses: Hair, interior spring and Sorbo-rubber mattresses are mostly used in hospital ward. They should always be washed when the patient is discharged.
Waterproof draw sheet: These consist of peace of rubber or plastic sheeting about thirty inches square with a piece of material stitched to end.
It is tucked in and held firmly in position under the cotton draw sheet by which it must be completely covered.
Finally
Many person’s spend their entire day in the hospital bed. How long you will stay in the hospital bed depends on the health condition of the patient.
As a result, many individual are fed, bathed, and use the bedpan in the bed. Making the bed properly is therefore very important. This is because a clean and neat bed will make the patient comfortable.
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