hospital gowns
We have been contacted by a group doing some research around hospital gowns and they would like some opinions. Please see below
Please can you help with distributing the link to our Qualtrics survey on thoughts and experiences of the hospital gown? We wrote an article for The Conversation that was published in January and so far has over 26,000 reads.
See:
https://theconversation.com/hospital-gowns-leave-patients-feeling-open-and-vulnerable-their-time-is-up-109030
This work has also been shortlisted for the Images of Research event next week at Strathclyde University.
We have a short Qualtrics survey asking people that have had experience of wearing a hospital gown for their thoughts and views. We have full ethical approval.
We are really keen to gain the views of men on this issue.
We have over 450 people that have now completed our hospital gown survey - we are really keen to have over 1000 participants! This way we can begin making recommendations for change - please can you send on the Qualtrics link:
https://hass.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6kRXTnsZ3AgUma1
Many thanks if you can help
I'm going to send this to my partner who has just returned home after 8 weeks in hospital with a serious heart infection and then heart surgery. He referred to the hospital gown as 'the gown of shame'...
My mother in law recently in hospital, I had taken her nightwear in, and then went to visit her she had one of the awful hospital gowns on, yes let us all raise awareness it I’d not dignified to wear one of thes,
My mother in law recently in hospital, I had taken her nightwear in, and then went to visit her she had one of the awful hospital gowns on, yes let us all raise awareness it I’d not dignified to wear one of thes,
We do need hospital gowns sometimes but not the current design. When I trained as a nurse many years ago we were taught to only expose the part of the body that needs to be seen.
Patients went to theatre on trolleys covered with a blanket. Now they often have to walk down a public corridor dressed in a gown (possibly with their dressing gown) no make-up or underwear etc and feeling generally awful.
Wearing a gown of an appropriate design can avoid having to undress without screens in the presence of the doctor nurse or technician.
Therefore, gown design .need and the patients wished should be considered
Patients should always be given the choice of remaining in their own clothes/
When I had a body scan I phoned first to check if I could remain dressed. I was told yes provided no metal or nylon. When I arrived I was asked by the nurse (when I refused to wear a gown) in front of other waiting patients if I had wire in my bra or nylon in my other clothing.