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Soft Toys - guidelines for parents/caregivers

Soft toys such as teddy bears are for many children a source of comfort, security and well being, particularly while they are a patient in hospital.

Toys that contain fabric and stuffing materials can also however act as a vector in the transmission of infection.

Please assist us in protecting, your child and others by

  • Labeling all soft toys brought into the hospital by you, your child and others with your child’s hospital label. On admission nursing staff will provide these labels for you.
  • If your child receives additional soft toys while they are a patient in hospital, (Gifts, from home or elsewhere) please go to the nurse’s desk and ask nursing staff for your child’s patient label to be applied to the soft toy.
  • Please keep your child’s soft toys at their bedside with them at all times.
  • Soft Toys found away from your child’s bedside area that are a labeled will be returned to your child’s bedside area.
  • Soft toys found that do not have a label can be located in the lost soft toy container found in the play education staff area on ward 42 N. Soft toys will be sealed in plastic bags and kept for one month from the date received.

We thank you for your assistance.


Published Date: November 23, 2009
Printed from http://www.monashchildrens.org.au/page/Parents/Your_childs_visit_to_hospital/Soft_Toys_-_guidelines_for_parentscaregivers/
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