Since when did playing music through speakers be OK on a hospital ward?

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I'm at my wife's bedside on a neurology ward and twice now other patients have just put the speaker on their phone and played music.

The ward staff seem OK with this.

Hand out cheap headphones, cfs

I was on a maternity ward amd a couolecwatched a film on laptop v loudly together at 3am

Didnt batter an eyelid

I think I’d have to do this.

People are becoming so bloody selfish.

Buy why should I?

I bought headphones for my wife so as not to annoy others. Why should I also have to spend my money on buying them for total ar... others.

People are selfish cunts nowadays.

The nurses can’t be arsed dealing with it or are of the generation who don’t see it as a problem. It should be banned to play music/tv without earphones, and it would be easy enough for hospitals to make this a rule.

It beggars belief really.

I despair. It's out of order to do that and disturb others' peace.

On the other side of the coin, I was on the ward for 5, weeks and nobody disturbed anyone, ever! And we all had tellies/ radios and some of us tablets as well. I think me and 2 others got told to go to sleep at midnight once as we were chatting away like schoolgirls, lol. It really depends on who you get stuck next to. And the hospital itself as well. The one I was in was one of the best in the country.

My child was on a children’s ward and all the other beds let their kids watch and play endless games, all at full volume. My child and I both had headphones on and I was despairing at the noise. I was tempted to start a fund for ward headphones. People in hospital need rest, I am always amazed at others peoples selfishness.

hope your wife is ok

My dad was in the later stages of cancer and he been put in a ward at 6am after a very harrowing few hours. Another young man came in shortly afterwards, clearly in a lot of pain. I switched the big lights off (lights still on outside) so they could try and rest. Suddenly, cleaners came into the bay and continued to have a very loud (shouted), but utterly meaningless, conversation which started from several metres away outside the bay. I saw the utter despair in my dad’s face as yet another hospital admission meant having to cope with this type of behaviour from staff as well as patients.

I spoke to the women and asked them to please be quiet. To their credit, they were quiet after that, but how can they be just not realise that it is not appropriate to walk around shouting around seriously ill patients? The other young man thanked me for that too. During each hospital stay, my dad just began to give up. He refused to go into the hospice in the end because of the experiences he’d had in hospital.

People are just selfish. Mil was in hospital just before she died and the rude inconsiderate people on the wards were a sight to behold, the attitudes, the noise and the language was bad.

some people have no manners or consideration for others .

When I was in hospital last year I noticed it was the ones who played music and videos all day who were the first to complain when an alarm went off on anyone else's medical equipment.

This - totally.

YANBU, OP. I'd say people's behaviour in public places has worsened considerably since COVID.

I found the ward was already a cattle mart, when I went in to be induced (I made a lot of noise myself once I was in labour). The woman next to me was on the phone, night & day. Thank Christ, this was during COVID & there was no visitors!

However, BobbyBiscuits post tells us why the nurses don’t do anything about it. They are subject to abuse, attack & general unpleasantness while trying to do a difficult job. Hospitals can’t regulate who attends. My BIL is hospital security.

I agree hospital wards are not for recovery and dreadful for MH. As a nurse, I am always happy to speak with patients to ask them to turn down/off, most of us would, as we agre with you.

Not the same, but when my shift is over the silence feels so strange, sensory overload is awful.
However, some nurses are unwilling to ask patients, as have previously been met with a torrent of abuse and complaints.
The nurse in charge should have the confidence to have a word.

We are always told about noise at night but the days are often worse.
I hope your wife recovers and escapes soon.

God, I had this while in the maternity ward. Along with people speaking on the phone on loud speaker!? So selfish. Mostly uneducated twats.

Absolutely. When I had my last child the nurses were so loud and rowdy in the middle of the night. DH asked them to quiet down, they'd apologize, an hour later woken up again by the cackling and yelling back and forth by the staff about "weekend plans"

Every ward I've worked on have earphones sent up from hospedia but there's always those who "can't tolerate them" for some spurious reasons. People just don't care, several patients huddled around a bed with the tv on full volume is seen as acceptable and normal, some of the staff are no better.

Why do people think their choice in music is so superior that everyone has to listen - reminds me of the boom boom boom coming out of teenagers cars - so corny

That's awful. Awful for you both.

No one gives a shit in hospital, even the staff laugh and shout all night when the patients are trying to sleep. It's a joke

Is forgotten how awful other peoples music is until recently when I sat in my car in a car park waiting to pick my son up and a man parked near me and played 'his' taste in music with the windows open.

It wasn't blasting out but loud enough for anyone parked near him go near and of course most cars were empty so it was really just me and him.

After three 'songs' I was ready to get out and smash his windscreen with a baseball bat.

It's awful that it's allowed in a hospital, so incredibly selfish.

I would ask first of all that the person gets headphones and if they persist I would complain right to the top at the hospital as a hospital should be a place where everyone can recuperate without noise.

Also had this on a labour ward, so many people thought it was acceptable to sit watching football/films/youtube on full blast on their phone. Don’t even get me started on the people having loud phone calls on the postnatal ward in the middle of the night! Selfish twats the lot of them

Just over a year ago I had a 9 hour operation for cancer - got put on the ward and was kept awake half the night by another patient playing a programme on her laptop without headphones. I spoke to a nurse who said they wouldn't ask her to keep the noise down in case she kicked off. I asked her if she wanted to borrow my headphones but she just ignored me.
I worked as a HCA on similar wards in the 1980s and there's no way that would have been allowed to happen.

This is my worst nightmare. I actually fear ever needing a hospital stay for this reason. I could not cope with the sheer selfishness of other people on a ward.

Just spend 24 hours in a side room on A & E and then 3 days in a ward . It was sheer hell .