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Babies crawling on hospital floor! yuck

Colorado Babies 12Colorado Babies 12 member
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So the other day at work, we had a patients family member allow her baby to crawl all around on the hospital floor and then all over the waiting room floor.  She was approached by some staff informing her that it wasn't a good idea and her response was that the baby would get a strong immune system.  ???  All of us nurses were mortified.  Not only is there dried blood, urine, dirt from shoes, etc., there is also germs from infections like MRSA, VRE, C. Diff, just to name a few.  The hospital does use cleaning agents to kill these germs but it certainly isn't 100%.  I don't know too many adults who would crawl all around the floor and then lick their hands so why would anyone let their baby??  Sad and scary.  Just my opinion.  
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  • thatoneredheadthatoneredhead member

    I work in a hospital too. It baffles me to see children/babies brought onto floors and then left unattended. I think it's obviously assumed that hospital's are gross, but the bodily fluids sick people make are insane. This isnt your mildly dirty bathroom- alot of these people have hep, HIV, MRSA, the big bugs.

    Babies and sick areas dont mix. 

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  • Meery82Meery82 member

    I work in a hospital too and have seen the same thing. Ugh. If I drop my pen on the floor, I clean it off.  People want me to bring my son in to visit, but I won't. It's too gross. I keep my work shoes in the garage, too.

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  • Ashley144uAshley144u member
    Some parents blow my mind! I was sitting in the well waiting room with my son for a check up and this kid comes running in from the sick room. He comes and looks at my son and I'm thinking "GET AWAY!!" He was like 4 years old and running around the waiting rooms in his socks... That parent you are talking about must have no shame though..to have nurses telling you it isnt a good idea, but you dont listen. Use common sense! Poor baby!
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