I know staff are busy and over worked but I've witnessed so many staff on every level not being sanitary.
The boxes of blue latex gloves on the walls of most wards are the worse. I've seen so many staff grab gloves from those boxes without washing their hands first. That means any contamination on their hands in now on most gloves. When the boxes are full they can easily pull one glove without touching the rest, as the box empties they have to put their hand inside the box. If they have used a keyboard or touched a door and not washed sufficiently, then everything that was on their hands is now in the box.
During Covid hand washing was increased, but now its sloppy and I suspect it is how my last 2 bouts of sepsis happened.
The keyboards used in the rooms of Critical Care were not cleaned in the week I spent there, yet medical staff used them daily with blue gloves on.
I can only speak of my own experience but if the Northern General doesn't have a wider spread problem with Sepsis I would be very surprised.
"Sepsis concerns about staff washing hands."
About: Northern General Hospital Northern General Hospital Sheffield S5 7AU
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