I have written about the brilliant people who go in the making of a hospital's employee pool. The motto is to keep things going, no matter what. When things do not work out as required and when the official solutions are beyond one's control, they find novel solutions. Here is an example.
The scrub tap had a sprinkler type nozzle. The spray angle was adjusted to wide. So the person scrubbing for an operation got water not only on his upper limbs from elbows to hands, but all over the torso. The contractor would not come to narrow the angle, nor would the local plumbers do it. I could not do it, because there seemed to be no adjusting mechanism, and I did not want to break it. We kept on using it the same way, until one day I found this innovative solution.
The water would fill up the glove tied around the nozzle. Two gingers had been cut at the tip, so that the water would pour out in a stream rather than as a wide angled spray. It was very innovative. Only thing not known was whether it was a new glove or a used glove. Getting all sorts of pathogens was a real possibility in case it was a used glove. With great sadness I had to get it removed.
The scrub tap had a sprinkler type nozzle. The spray angle was adjusted to wide. So the person scrubbing for an operation got water not only on his upper limbs from elbows to hands, but all over the torso. The contractor would not come to narrow the angle, nor would the local plumbers do it. I could not do it, because there seemed to be no adjusting mechanism, and I did not want to break it. We kept on using it the same way, until one day I found this innovative solution.
The water would fill up the glove tied around the nozzle. Two gingers had been cut at the tip, so that the water would pour out in a stream rather than as a wide angled spray. It was very innovative. Only thing not known was whether it was a new glove or a used glove. Getting all sorts of pathogens was a real possibility in case it was a used glove. With great sadness I had to get it removed.
