I work in the surgical ward of a public hospital. We run at pretty much 100% capacity every day. For the vast majority of time we have girls and boys rooms. Nobody ever wants to mix the rooms but occasionally we have to. We will move people around later on if we can. Simple fact is if you've had surgery you need a bed and sometimes it's not in an ideal spot.The logisics of managing a smooth running ward is probably far more difficult than what people would think. Mostly it's some form of organised chaos. The time frame between discharges and incoming patients is a very fine line. .
90 % of the time our BC patients are given a single room. If that is impossible due to the acuity of the ward, or patients that are expected to go home but don't things can get interesting.
Our nurses will shuffle, outlie and do what ever they can to give the single room and keep same sex rooms.
It would be an absolute last choice to put a BC patient in a room with men.
Maybe it depends who's running the ward at whatever hospital as well.
