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Old 30-06-2008, 12:45   #88
polly
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Re: Hospital and cleanliness - or the lack thereof

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington View Post
In the days of Florence (Nightingale) most of the cleaning was done by nurses...in fact when I first started nursing, the more junior you were, the more cleaning tasks you did.
There was never a time when you had nothing to do......Sister would send you to the sluice with a tin of chemico to shine the stainless steel bedpans, or tidy the linen cupboard, or wash down all the bed tables(which were cleaned after the discharge of every patient anyway).
That is what I thought. so it would seem that in her day cleaning was given more of a priority?That is my interpretation anyway
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