• J Nurs Care Qual · Apr 2005

    Nurses' perceptions of open visiting hours in neuroscience intensive care unit.

    • Sarah Livesay, Alicia Gilliam, Marilyn Mokracek, Sherly Sebastian, and Joanne V Hickey.
    • Neuroscience ICU, St Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Tex, USA.
    • J Nurs Care Qual. 2005 Apr 1;20(2):182-9.

    AbstractA quality improvement project was undertaken by Neuro-ICU nurses to determine possible effects from open visitation. From a quality improvement perspective, nurses' concerns were investigated along with their perceptions about open visitation to determine a need for visitation policy revision. Vast variability in nurses' interpretation and implementation of individualized open visitation policy suggested a need for the following: staff education about the policy and its implementation, a review of the literature to determine the validity of concerns about deleterious physiologic effects on neuroscience patients from visitation, and improved communication among nurses about visitation.

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