Maybe, just maybe, someone is getting through to administration. Peds moving to South and sharing nurses with other patients? You're kidding, I hope.Cross-contamination is the biggest issue, with patients on both sides of the mix becoming losers. Look how everything else travels on a floor and you begin to realize that no matter how much handwashing you do, your clothes retain some contamination. Brushing against a bed, touching a sleeve to a patient.... Why do you think a lot of healthcare workers take a shower when they get off work?
Just watch how one room posted as isolation on a floor, grows to two, three...sometimes a whole hallway.
Different age-groups have different resistances. What may affect one group minimally might be devastating to another. And realizing that pedi patients can turn on a dime can be a hard-learned lesson.
The last aspect is dealing with the patients. Not everyone can work peds by temperment. A good pedi nurse is gold.
While the hospital juggles their facilities, spending money only to rip the changes out a year later, you understand why shortfalls occur. And why planning seems to be in short supply.
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