The importance of sorting for hospital linen washing
There are many medical textiles, so when washing hospital linen, in order to ensure the washing quality and avoid cross-infection, attention must be paid to sorting. Hospital linen can generally be roughly divided into 5 categories:
1. Clothing for medical staff: such as white clothes, nurse uniforms, nurse caps, nurse pants, etc.;
2. Items in the operating room: such as surgical gowns, isolation gowns, treatment towels, special inspection logistics, interventional treatment items, sterilization, dust-free purification logistics
3. Items used by patients: such as bed quilts, cotton mattresses, hospital gowns, and large sheets (some use quilt covers);
4. Ward curtains;
5. Medical office textiles: such as tablecloths, sofa covers, curtains, etc.
Sorting and sorting have an important impact on the washing work. If this work is not done well, sometimes it will even cause washing accidents. After sorting, different methods are used to process textiles of different varieties and colors. It can be said that the classification before washing is more important than the sorting after washing. Doing a good job in sorting will make the follow-up work more effective. When sorting, the following aspects must be done well:
- The purpose of clothing classification for medical personnel is to make clothing of a variety of colors easy to dry, use special chemical raw materials, and wash them in a different way from other textiles;
——When sorting textiles, medical personnel should pay attention to check whether there are cash, rings, lipsticks and medicines in the pockets (if there are colored medicines, the clothes will be stained during washing). The key is to check whether there are leftover signature pens in the clothing, otherwise it is very easy to cause dyeing accidents.
——For operating room textiles, it is necessary to ensure that when encountering different colors, they are washed in separate colors. When picking traditional Chinese medicines, pay special attention not to let non-woven masks, hats, surgical gowns, etc. be loaded into the washing machine. Colleagues, also check for hair, surgical instruments, glassware and other debris during the surgical skin preparation process. These items are very easy to cause washing accidents, such as large areas of lint. If the linen that has been washed has a lot of dandruff, it will be very troublesome to deal with.
——Articles used by patients with infectious sources must be handled separately. In addition, the operator should also check whether there are residues such as feces on the clothes;
——For office textiles, due to the difference in materials and colors, they should also be washed and planted separately. Due to the differences in specifications, varieties, and functions of use, medical textiles must be sorted and separated before washing. Medical textiles The separation of money laundering is the first process in the washing process to lay a good foundation for the production of qualified products. While improving the quality of washing, doing a good job of sorting and sorting can effectively reduce the manpower, chemical materials, water, steam and other operating costs in the washing process, which is of great significance to improve the efficiency of enterprises.
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