Reply #16: We used to jump through major hoops to get patients out to see

[Warpy]

the little ones in the waiting room on the floor. Often it would involve chasing medical orders to have a Thoraclex on simple gravity drainage for a set period plus organizing portable O2 and extension cords for multiple pumps. We discouraged any kid under 6 from entering a patient room for the reasons you cited. Our floors were all carpeted and any time we needed to kneel down on them, we felt like burning our uniforms.

It could be very important for a patient to see the little ones. However, it wasn't worth endangering the lives of the children, and that's exactly what parents of children too young to understand that we meant what we said when we said keep off that floor were doing when they took kids into any of the patient rooms.

PLEASE, folks, keep the little ones home if there isn't a waiting room on the patient floor.