Posts Tagged ‘hospital’

See Monkey, Monkey Do?

Not sure how this hospital sign helps prevent infections:

Lawrence Welk will Look for the Tiny Bubbles

From a hospital laboratory… is it possible to prevent bubbles from being there?

Is “Not Remembering” the Root Cause of Poor Hand Hygiene?

Signs really don’t solve this problem or we’d already have 100% hand hygiene in hospitals.

Careful Pedestrian Must Stop?

This sign outside a hospital is telling careful pedestrians they must stop?

Don’t Fall When You Get Up to Read the Sign

A friend sent this from a hospital. Too bad the sign was located so far from the patient bed that you couldn’t read the warning (see the second picture). If you follow the “Use your call light” instruction, let’s hope the nurses and techs can respond… or really it should be said that we hope [...]

Watch my shoulders? No, you watch yours, bub

Think how many hospital fistfights we can prevent from people not bumping into each other!

“Do not” inject patient with wrong syringe

If the identical looking clear syringes are THAT easy to mix up, isn’t better error proofing required?

Every time you don’t wash your hands, a kitten dies

Found at a hospital. That’s just a weird poster.

Cutie Killers?

But those germs look way too cute and friendly to kill anybody

Hey Surgeon – Don’t Cut Here!

This is a picture sent by a friend. He broke his collar bone in a bike accident. Clearly it was the other collarbone. The patient asked: Shouldn’t they have been able to tell which one was broken? That was probably true in this case, but it’s a generally accepted patient safety practice to mark the [...]

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