Abstract
Many hospitals provide overnight patients with a very familiar item, the bath basin (BB). Although BBs are intended to provide bed baths, it is common knowledge that these containers are used as catch all containers during patients’ stays. Additional uses of BBs include: storage of patient food, storage of wound care supplies, catching emesis, and incontinence care. Since BBs are not designated for a specific function, the same BB that was used for incontinence care may also function as wound care supply storage. Such practices may have potentially contributed to 67% of adult Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections (CLABSIs) caused by gastrointestinal flora in 2011 at the studied acute care hospital.
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