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or other health-care environment, beds must sometimes be made while occupied by a patient. Specialised techniques are taught to healthcare staff to enable beds to be made efficiently with due care for the patient. Moving the patient out of the bed before remaking it is the preferred option.
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reports that the record time for two people to make a bed "with one blanket, two sheets, an undersheet, an uncased pillow, one pillowcase, one counterpane and hospital corners" is 14.0 seconds. This feat was achieved by two nurses from the
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He stepped into my mess of a room and by dinnertime he had run me through the whole gammut of how to set up the room in inspection order, and how to make the bed properly so the drillies could bounce a 20c coin off the
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are often taught how to make a neat and tidy bed with hospital corners. Military personnel are expected to fold the bed very tightly, in some cases so that a coin can bounce off it.
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At the crack of dawn, the screaming started again. Beds had to be made, with the sheets and grey army blankets stacked neatly and perfectly square on top.
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Beds must sometimes be made to exacting standards, demanded by nurses or military personnel. In a
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There are different bed-making techniques, such as "hospital corners" and "mitred corners".
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To prepare (a bed) for sleeping in; to arrange bedclothes on (a bed) for future use.
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that automatically rearrange the bedding are in development and in use.
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Making the Bed

bedsheets
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dust mites
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hospital
Military recruits
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Guinness World Records
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Oxford English Dictionary
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"Untidy beds may keep us healthy"
BBC Online
"Chapter 2"
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"Bed Making"
"Bed Making Procedure: Definition, Principles, Types of Bed Making"
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1-86448-904-9
"Yes, yes a million times: Bed makes itself in 50 seconds"

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