Wards stay closed at York Hospital (From York Press)

As a Nurse (of 24 years), I can safely state that myself an ALL of my colleagues are scrupulous about hygiene. hospital visitors however are a different matter. They whine on & on about "the bugs in these filthy hospitals, blah blah blah...", yet they NEVER clean their greasy germ-infested hands on arrival, they cut through one ward to get to another despite being told not to. (Maybe the signs aren't big enough. Maybe a picture would help...?). They sit on beds, (despite signs saying not to - there are chairs provided). One moronic family actually wandered into a five-bedded bay (knowingly) with a relative infected with Norovirus as "she's been ill for two days now so we thought bringing her to visit you would cheer her up" !!!
This is the unbelievable stupidity of some people. This is what we're up against. The ward is now closed thanks to this family of stupid and inconsiderate cretins. Indirectly, they could have killed someone.
I did challenge them on their decision to bring an infected person (who clearly didn't want to be there) to a (previously uninfected) ward. They simply were too stupid to understand. (They kept on saying: "Errr... ah doan geddit. Wot's yer problem like?") These were the type of people you would never tire of punching, repeatedly, in their vacant, stupid faces. (They were from Selby, so I didn't expect a lot in the IQ department anyway...Classic case of 'NFS' - meaning: 'Normal For Selby'. A term used to describe, in medical fraternity, the degree of inbred stupidity which we notice is commonly characteristic of people from that area). Everyone, (fuelled by corrupt and ill-informed media reports), is happy to blame Nurses and hospitals. But patients and visitors have to do their bit. We don't ask much. But simple hygiene seems to be beyond people. Or do they simply not give a ****?
Until THEY are infected of course - then it's everyone else's fault but theirs.

Well I for one think you do a great job!

As a nurse for only a short period of time.. i agree with "deathwatch",I have also seen first hand visitors walking onto my ward.. not gelling there hands or even washing there hands after using the toilet. It is a long running battle with Noro but it is not helped with the visitors not going by the code... by not sitting on beds, bringing young
children onto the wards etc.
There soon to complain if we confront them which i personally have to protect my patients as if we dont it will be a never ending battle!

deathwatch, by all means share your experience of people who do not help in this matter, they make your work almost impossible.
But if the tone of your comments is a reflection of your personal attitude then I hope never have the benefit of your professional ministrations.
Why the anti-Selby diatribe on this subject? Are the culprits only from there then?

Where does NFS fit on the NFN scale? Which has the most surplus digits and the shallowest gene pool?

This same thing happens everytime there is a Norovirus outbreak. I know it is harse but why don't they stop all visitors and then it will only take a few days to get rid of the illness. No matter how many times they tell people not to visit when they are unwell, they still do. I am sure they don't realise the problems this can cause to patients, especially the elderly more so when they are probably very ill to start with. People visiting when they aren't well just undoes all the good work the nursing staff do to try and contain the epidemic.

When my sister is in hospital her 5 year old grandson tell us all to use the gel at the door and then before we go in to the ward and then again before we go in to the bay my sister is he as done this since he was 2 years old and he do's the same on the way out as well
The number of people who just walk past these gel dispensers is beyond beleaf with out using them

people do not seem to get that they carry germs in to hospitals and carry them out with them on there hands and any thing that as come in to contact with the patient

No wonder Hospitals can never win
The only way they could maybe win is to close the hospital to all visitors when they have an outbreak