One Team's Experience with Integrating Flexible Visitation in the Medical Intensive Care Unit.
Critical Care
/ organization & administration
Critical Care Nursing
/ statistics & numerical data
Family
/ psychology
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Patient Care Team
/ organization & administration
Patient Safety
Patient Satisfaction
Quality Improvement
Simulation Training
/ trends
Visitors to Patients
/ psychology
Family presence
ICU
Patient visitors
Quality improvement
Simulation
Journal
Critical care nursing clinics of North America
ISSN: 1558-3481
Titre abrégé: Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8912620
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2020
Jun 2020
Historique:
entrez:
14
5
2020
pubmed:
14
5
2020
medline:
8
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Integration of flexible visitation into a large health system requires concentrated effort. Evaluating impact on patient, family, and staff outcomes is important to facilitate changes and ensure visiting policy success. The medical intensive care unit staff participated in a collaborative quality improvement effort to encourage flexible visitation. The integration of flexible visitation spanned an 18-month period, timed to accompany a transition to a new setting with rooms designed to support visitor presence. This article details these efforts, outcomes, and important gaps for future work evaluating integration of flexible visitation in critical care.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32402320
pii: S0899-5885(20)30019-8
doi: 10.1016/j.cnc.2020.02.007
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
253-264Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Disclosure Phase 2 data collection was supported by The PCOR-ICU collaborative through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI, 2015) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award, offered by SCCM. https://www.pcori.org/research-results/2015/improving-carecritically-ill-patients-families-through-research.