[humanser] Question about cane sanitation for hospital use

[JD Townsend]

Hello Kaiti & All:

Interesting question.  I do work in a hospital and precautions are always an 
issue.

My questions are:
Do other staff wear street shoes or cover them with booties?
Do other staff wear full body coverings or are pants exposed?

Alcohol wipes are always present in hospitals.  A clean wipe of my white 
cane would provide much better protection than the exposure to my shoes or 
pants and much better protection than nursing clipboards or exposed hair.

According to my best knowledge, your white cane is considered a prosthesis, 
like a prostetic leg and as such there ought be no problem if it is kept as 
clean as one of those devices.

If shoe booties are called for, just use one for your cane tip.

I would be more concerned about your music insterments - players and the 
like, and your cell 'phone.


JD Townsend LCSW
Helping the light dependent to see.
Daytona Beach, Earth, Sol System