Muckamore Abbey Hospital, Antrim - 25 April 2012 - Regulation and ...

9.0 Patient Equipment
STANDARD 5.0
PATIENT EQUIPMENT
Cleanliness and state of repair of general patient equipment.
Patient Equipment
Erne
Erne
16 Feb 2012 28 April 2012
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There has been a significant improvement in the standard of cleaning
patient equipment and staff are to be commended. Staff have carried
out a review of stock held in the treatment room, out of date and
opened single use supplies have been removed and equipment
cleaned. A commode and patient wash bowls which were not used
have been disposed of. Inspectors found that the majority of patient
equipment was clean some attention was required to the hoist and
wheelchairs in the equipment store as these were dusty.
A signing off sheet to show equipment had been cleaned has been
introduced until trigger tape, which identifies equipment is clean and
ready for use, has been sourced. Staff have received infection
prevention control training since the inspection in February, however,
when questioned some staff were not able to give the symbol for single
use items.
Recommendations
8. The trust and individual staff have a collective
responsibility to ensure that patient equipment is clean.
(Repeated)
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