please help Looking to make hospital stay better

nursedana

New member
I am a registered nurse working at an adult hospital, and as you know Thank God the average life expectancy for CF is increasing every year.  So the kids with CF will become adults with CF. Well... I am Looking for any and all ideas possible to put together a room dedicated to only CF patients, in our hospital.  We are dedicating a room to a patient and dear friend we sadly lost to CF, we want to better the hospital stay of CF patients.  We would like to make the room less "hospital" if you know what I mean. Making the room more like home, letting them focus on getting better and helping everyone feel more positive.   Starting with a flat screen TV, dvd, game console, and the rest we would like your input please.  Please help us help our patients be more at ease as you know they/you have enough to deal with.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart..
 

nursedana

New member
I am a registered nurse working at an adult hospital, and as you know Thank God the average life expectancy for CF is increasing every year. So the kids with CF will become adults with CF. Well... I am Looking for any and all ideas possible to put together a room dedicated to only CF patients, in our hospital. We are dedicating a room to a patient and dear friend we sadly lost to CF, we want to better the hospital stay of CF patients. We would like to make the room less "hospital" if you know what I mean. Making the room more like home, letting them focus on getting better and helping everyone feel more positive. Starting with a flat screen TV, dvd, game console, and the rest we would like your input please. Please help us help our patients be more at ease as you know they/you have enough to deal with. Thank you from the bottom of my heart..
 

nursedana

New member
I am a registered nurse working at an adult hospital, and as you know Thank God the average life expectancy for CF is increasing every year. So the kids with CF will become adults with CF. Well... I am Looking for any and all ideas possible to put together a room dedicated to only CF patients, in our hospital. We are dedicating a room to a patient and dear friend we sadly lost to CF, we want to better the hospital stay of CF patients. We would like to make the room less "hospital" if you know what I mean. Making the room more like home, letting them focus on getting better and helping everyone feel more positive. Starting with a flat screen TV, dvd, game console, and the rest we would like your input please. Please help us help our patients be more at ease as you know they/you have enough to deal with. Thank you from the bottom of my heart..
 

Jane

Digital opinion leader
A 'fridge is a must. A desk or table to play cards or eat meals with family and friends. A window seat bench or place for friends to hang out. Lots of storage. Just some thoughts.
 

Jane

Digital opinion leader
A 'fridge is a must. A desk or table to play cards or eat meals with family and friends. A window seat bench or place for friends to hang out. Lots of storage. Just some thoughts.
 

Jane

Digital opinion leader
A 'fridge is a must. A desk or table to play cards or eat meals with family and friends. A window seat bench or place for friends to hang out. Lots of storage. Just some thoughts.
 
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msqbianca

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I am a CF patient in Cleveland, Ohio and I go to RB&C hospital. There they have a floor only for CF kids and 1 floor specifically for adults with CF. On the floor they have a flat screen tv in the general sitting area on the floor. Each room has a refrigerator, dvd player, a flat screen tv, & is its own personal room. The children only share their room with one other CF patient if any at all. Otherwise the rooms are private. Each room also has its own complete bathroom with a toilet and shower and/or bathtub. The design in the room if you look up is a painting of a sky and as you look around the room you realize that you are in the rainbow. It is not hospital like. I have been a patient there for 28 years. I would not go anywhere else for care. Sorry especially not the Cleveland Clinic. Please feel free to contact them if you need further ideas I am sure they would be glad to help with any ideas.216-844-1000
 
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msqbianca

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I am a CF patient in Cleveland, Ohio and I go to RB&C hospital. There they have a floor only for CF kids and 1 floor specifically for adults with CF. On the floor they have a flat screen tv in the general sitting area on the floor. Each room has a refrigerator, dvd player, a flat screen tv, & is its own personal room. The children only share their room with one other CF patient if any at all. Otherwise the rooms are private. Each room also has its own complete bathroom with a toilet and shower and/or bathtub. The design in the room if you look up is a painting of a sky and as you look around the room you realize that you are in the rainbow. It is not hospital like. I have been a patient there for 28 years. I would not go anywhere else for care. Sorry especially not the Cleveland Clinic. Please feel free to contact them if you need further ideas I am sure they would be glad to help with any ideas.216-844-1000
 
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msqbianca

Guest
I am a CF patient in Cleveland, Ohio and I go to RB&C hospital. There they have a floor only for CF kids and 1 floor specifically for adults with CF. On the floor they have a flat screen tv in the general sitting area on the floor. Each room has a refrigerator, dvd player, a flat screen tv, & is its own personal room. The children only share their room with one other CF patient if any at all. Otherwise the rooms are private. Each room also has its own complete bathroom with a toilet and shower and/or bathtub. The design in the room if you look up is a painting of a sky and as you look around the room you realize that you are in the rainbow. It is not hospital like. I have been a patient there for 28 years. I would not go anywhere else for care. Sorry especially not the Cleveland Clinic. Please feel free to contact them if you need further ideas I am sure they would be glad to help with any ideas.216-844-1000
 
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msqbianca

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by the way I am 28 years old. So that must say something about the hospital.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><br>
 
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msqbianca

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by the way I am 28 years old. So that must say something about the hospital.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><br>
 
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msqbianca

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by the way I am 28 years old. So that must say something about the hospital.<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"><br>
 

stillkickin

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Hey Dana...it's awesome to see a nurse who cares so much about her patients and wants to pay tribute to a fallen CF soul. I go to RB&C in Cleveland, and we are lucky there! They've made a pod where the adult CF'ers stay, and it's as nice and as comfortable as possible. Being an old-time CF patient (over 40), the adult CF patients have stayed at all different hospitals attached to RB&C. Those rooms were very sterile with an institutionalized-feel. Some were on Med-Surg. floors--and you know how crazy that can be.

Once they moved the adult patients into the newly built pediatric hospital, life as we'd known it for so long--changed for the better. To try to provide a person who spends long amounts of time in the hospital a better experience, what everyone above mentioned is right on! A fridge, storage, a good TV, a DVD player, a decent bathroom. I think another thing that makes Rainbow Babies and Children's so nice is they try to keep blood drawers and cleaning people from bothering sleeping patients until after 8:00 AM. So other than a quiet nurse who sneeks in and out to hook us up to IV meds in the middle of the night....nobody else is coming in and out. This provides an enviroment to sleep and heal. Also, they have room-darkening curtains on our windows. We'll still hear a helicopter transporting critically ill patients to the hospital...but that's all part of being at a busy and excellent health facility.
 

stillkickin

New member
Hey Dana...it's awesome to see a nurse who cares so much about her patients and wants to pay tribute to a fallen CF soul. I go to RB&C in Cleveland, and we are lucky there! They've made a pod where the adult CF'ers stay, and it's as nice and as comfortable as possible. Being an old-time CF patient (over 40), the adult CF patients have stayed at all different hospitals attached to RB&C. Those rooms were very sterile with an institutionalized-feel. Some were on Med-Surg. floors--and you know how crazy that can be.

Once they moved the adult patients into the newly built pediatric hospital, life as we'd known it for so long--changed for the better. To try to provide a person who spends long amounts of time in the hospital a better experience, what everyone above mentioned is right on! A fridge, storage, a good TV, a DVD player, a decent bathroom. I think another thing that makes Rainbow Babies and Children's so nice is they try to keep blood drawers and cleaning people from bothering sleeping patients until after 8:00 AM. So other than a quiet nurse who sneeks in and out to hook us up to IV meds in the middle of the night....nobody else is coming in and out. This provides an enviroment to sleep and heal. Also, they have room-darkening curtains on our windows. We'll still hear a helicopter transporting critically ill patients to the hospital...but that's all part of being at a busy and excellent health facility.
 

stillkickin

New member
Hey Dana...it's awesome to see a nurse who cares so much about her patients and wants to pay tribute to a fallen CF soul. I go to RB&C in Cleveland, and we are lucky there! They've made a pod where the adult CF'ers stay, and it's as nice and as comfortable as possible. Being an old-time CF patient (over 40), the adult CF patients have stayed at all different hospitals attached to RB&C. Those rooms were very sterile with an institutionalized-feel. Some were on Med-Surg. floors--and you know how crazy that can be.
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<br />Once they moved the adult patients into the newly built pediatric hospital, life as we'd known it for so long--changed for the better. To try to provide a person who spends long amounts of time in the hospital a better experience, what everyone above mentioned is right on! A fridge, storage, a good TV, a DVD player, a decent bathroom. I think another thing that makes Rainbow Babies and Children's so nice is they try to keep blood drawers and cleaning people from bothering sleeping patients until after 8:00 AM. So other than a quiet nurse who sneeks in and out to hook us up to IV meds in the middle of the night....nobody else is coming in and out. This provides an enviroment to sleep and heal. Also, they have room-darkening curtains on our windows. We'll still hear a helicopter transporting critically ill patients to the hospital...but that's all part of being at a busy and excellent health facility.
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drdanika

Guest
first and foremost, fridge. Storage for food, storage for clothes, storage for personal stuff... Make sure the IV pole can slide into the bathroom without having to kick it over the doorjam... it's the small things that make the difference really. and if possible, have the room in close proximately to the "ammenaties" of the hospital. We are a 5 minute walk to the cafeteria or gift shop. Kinda sucks when you are here for so long and you start to go stir crazy.
 
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drdanika

Guest
first and foremost, fridge. Storage for food, storage for clothes, storage for personal stuff... Make sure the IV pole can slide into the bathroom without having to kick it over the doorjam... it's the small things that make the difference really. and if possible, have the room in close proximately to the "ammenaties" of the hospital. We are a 5 minute walk to the cafeteria or gift shop. Kinda sucks when you are here for so long and you start to go stir crazy.
 
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drdanika

Guest
first and foremost, fridge. Storage for food, storage for clothes, storage for personal stuff... Make sure the IV pole can slide into the bathroom without having to kick it over the doorjam... it's the small things that make the difference really. and if possible, have the room in close proximately to the "ammenaties" of the hospital. We are a 5 minute walk to the cafeteria or gift shop. Kinda sucks when you are here for so long and you start to go stir crazy.
 

Ldude916

New member
My hospital has a garden with benches outside near the cafeteria, so i am allowed to leave my room, get coffee and sit outside in the beautiful garden with friends for a while!
 

Ldude916

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My hospital has a garden with benches outside near the cafeteria, so i am allowed to leave my room, get coffee and sit outside in the beautiful garden with friends for a while!
 
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