• Intensive Crit Care Nurs · Feb 2011

    Visiting policies in the adult intensive care units: a complete survey of Dutch ICUs.

    • Afien E Spreen and Marieke J Schuurmans.
    • Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. afienspreen@kpnplanet.nl
    • Intensive Crit Care Nurs. 2011 Feb 1;27(1):27-30.

    ObjectivesTreatment in an intensive care unit (ICU) is not only very stressful for the patient but also for the family as well. An open visiting policy, defined as a policy that imposes no restrictions on visiting hours, duration of visits and/or number of visitors, seems to fit very well both patient and family needs. The purpose of this article is to give an overview of the current situation of Dutch ICUs visiting policies.DesignNationwide, telephone-based questionnaire survey.Participants(Head)nurses of all ICUs.ResultsThe results of this study show that none of the ICUs have an open visiting policy, defined as a policy that imposes no restrictions on visiting time, duration of visits and/or number of visitors. The majority of the Dutch ICUs (85.7%) has restricted visiting policies. Responses were obtained from 100% of the ICUs.ConclusionDespite several international guidelines, research and literature about unrestricted visiting hours on the ICUs, none of the ICUs in this study operates with such a visiting policy. If we take these results into account then the question rises if ICUs are aware of these patients and family needs on the ICUs.Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

      Pubmed     Full text   Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…