Crystal:  We have a "women's locker room" on the ground floor of the 
hospital that has a separate small room with a door that contains a rocker, 
a small counter-like shelf running the length of one wall (with an electric 
outlet with a still-functioning Ameda SMB), a wall-mounted magazine rack, 
and a mirror.  There is a pretty wallpaper border on the wall.  There is a 
container of Cavi-wipes which is used for wiping down the pump after use.  
Mothers are expected to provide their own kit and are responsible for 
cleaning up after themselves.  This room was here when I started 4 years 
ago.  The only change I have made is to leave my name and extension on the 
laminated list of rules and regulations that I have posted on the door.  A 
while back I was getting complaints from some of the pumping mothers about 
other staff using the room to blow dry their hair as the outlet in that 
room is the only one located near a mirror.  The folks using the room for 
personal grooming were leaving hair, etc. all over.  Once I let it be known 
thru the posted "rules" that that room is to be used for pumping only, the 
complaints stopped.  The staff up here on OB are allowed to take a unit 
pump into an empty patient room and pump, with the same expectation that 
they will wipe down the pump after use and clean up after themselves.  This 
usually works, but occasionally I have to post gentle "reminders".  A 
couple of years ago, I got a pump for each of the other hospital units 
outside of OB, to address the problem of our pumps disappearing.  The 
staffs of the other units are expected to order a kit from Distribution for 
their pumping patient and set up the mother with her own kit and that 
unit's pump.  Those pumps can also be used by the units' own staff to pump, 
if the staff member finds themselves unable to leave her unit to go to the 
ground floor.  So far, this works pretty well.

Pam Hirsch, BSN,RN,IBCLC
Clinical Lead, Lactation Services
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL   USA

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