When our hosp was looking for a good place to store out-of-use pumps, the patient room was rejected for infection control reasons. It could be touched or handled by anyone visiting the patient, or by the patient, even if she doesn't need to use it. Curiosity, you know. The bag we use to cover the pump after cleaning it off, could be broken, so the pump would have to be cleaned again before that mother could use it herself.

We are mandated to sanitize every pump between every user, even if it's one use by one visiting NICU mother. And when clean, we tie a bag around it to keep hands off until it is put into use.

A pump for EVERY mother? Plus pumps for NICU moms and pumps for moms in other areas of your hospital? That's a huge hospital expense, isn't it?

Phyllis

---- germaine lambergs <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 

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We are having a new concern with pumps bieng put into  every postpartum
room. Our worry is that the mothers who don't need breast pumps will be
influencd by the pump just bieng in the room ( subliminal suggestion). What
do we think about the ethics involved with this issue. Thanks Germaine

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