The document outlines the procedures for daily and weekly cleaning of a ward. For daily cleaning, equipment like basins, dusters, soap, and gloves are needed. The procedure involves dusting from top to bottom, mopping floors, washing sinks, and returning equipment to its proper place. Weekly cleaning requires additional equipment and moving patients' property. It involves high dusting, washing walls and lamps, scrubbing floors, polishing, and scrubbing furniture.

1. Cleaning the ward
RKS

2. Daily cleaning
• Objectives
• Identify the equipment used for daily cleaning
• Prepare the requirements (cleaning trolley)
• Carry out daily cleaning

3. Requirements
Top shelf
• 2 basins
• One for soapy water
• One for clean water
• 3 dusters
• One for dusting with soapy water
• 1 for rising off soapy water
• 1 for drying
• Liquid soap or soap in a dish
• Vim for cleaning sinks
Bottom shelf
• 1 bucket for used water
• Hand broom
• Dust pan
• Heavy duty gloves
• Scrubbing brush

4. Procedure
• Observe the general rules of all nursing procedures
• Open windows prior to cleaning
• Collect all dirty equipment e.g. sputum mugs, water bottles and take them to sluice
room
• Move the beds and lockers away from the wall
• Start with dump dusting of all ward furniture & equipment
• Start dusting from the top downwards. Dry dust immediately
• Mop the floor from the far end of the ward towards the main door
• Sprinkle vim on the sinks wash them and rinse with clean water
• Return beds & lockers to their respective positions
• Take the trolley to the sluice room, clean used equipment & return them to their
proper place

5. Weekly cleaning
• Objectives
• Identify the equipment
• Prepare requirements
• Carry out the cleaning
• Additional requirements for weekly cleaning
• Scrubbing brush
• Mop
• Wiper
• Floor polish
• At the side: High dusting broom

6. Procedure
• Encourage patients who able to walk to move out
• Remove patients property from lockers and put lockers, tables, chairs outside the ward
• Move beds from one side of the ward to the other
• begin with high dusting then move downwards as far as the ventilators, windows, walls ceiling
are brushed with high dusting broom
• Wash all painted walls with soap and water
• Wash lamp shades
• Where beds have been removed scrub the floor with soap and water, rinse with clean water, dry
and then polish
• Move the beds to the cleaned area and then repeat the procedure
• Varnish furniture if necessary clean all the equipment
• Scrub the furniture (chairs, lockers, tables etc.
• Remember each ward has its own cleaning day