Kinds of Linens Used for Bed Making

A-Blanket: a large piece of clothe often soft, woolen and is used for warmth as a bed cover.

B-Top sheet: used to cover the patient to provide warmth, made of thick cotton, thermal
material.

C-Cotton draw sheet: a piece of cloth that the rubber sheet and is used to absorb and moisture.

D-Bottom sheet: used to cover the bed after mattress cover.

E-Rubber sheet/Mackintosh : used to protect the bottom sheet from soothing due to patient
secretions and prevent the patients from getting bedsore. It's usually placed over the center of
the bottom sheet.
 Categories of Used/Soiled Linen

Category of Color of Bag Comments

Linen
Any linen that has not been used since it was last
laundered.
Clean linen must be in a good state of repair, as
Clean Linen tearing or roughness can damage the
Patient’s skin.
The condition of linen in use should be monitored by
the laundry contractor and by all staff.
NB: If linen is taken into an isolation room and not
used, the linen must be treated as infected and
laundered prior to further use as it may be
potentially contaminated by the environment.

All used linen other than that listed below falls

within this category must be placed within a white
plastic laundry bag.
Soiled or Other than Curtains RTS (return to sender, Trust own
Fouled Linen items) and Rejected items. Bags containing used
laundry must be stored in a secure area, away from
public access whilst awaiting collection
NB: Manual soaking/ washing of soiled items
must never be carried out.
A sluice cycle or cold pre-wash must be used for all
soiled items.

Infectious or This is any used linen which is soiled with blood or

Heavily Soiled any other body fluid; and all linen used by a patient
Linen even with a known infection.
All soiled / infected linen must be placed in a soluble
alginate (RED) bag, inside the correct laundry bag.
Guidelines in Bed Making

Rational1-Wash hand thoroughly before and afterhandling clients bed linen -helps to
control nosocomial infection

2-Hold soiled linens a way from the body. -Toavoid contact with nurses clothes and to avoid
spreadingmicro-organism.

3-Linenfor one client is never placed on another client'sbed.-to avoid transporting micro-
organism from patient to patient

4-Soiled linens is placed directly in a portable linen hamper or tucked in to a pillow case at the
end of the bed before it is gathered up for disposal in the linen hamper or in linen chute.
Pillowcase is then tied and labeled with:name, room number, communicable/ non
communicable.
-Tolimited the patient secretion and avoid contamination with other furniture.

5-Soiled linen is never shaken in air.-Toavoid spreading microorganism

6-When stripping and making a bed, conserve time and energy by stripping and making up one
side as completely as possible before working on the other side-Toavoid time and energy
waste.
7-Gather all needed linen beforestarting to strip the bed.-Tokeep time, energy, and quality of
work.8-Move any furniture away from the bed -Toprovide ample working space.