Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, BC Children's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Electronic address: jocelyn.srigley@cw.bc.ca.
Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Va; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex. Electronic address: audra.iness@bcm.edu.
The COVID-19 pandemic presented unique and unprecedented challenges due to limited knowledge regarding the virus's transmissibility. With guidance from the Center for Disease Control (CDC), healthcare...
A telephone interview was conducted among hospitalized COVID-19 positive patients discharged between March 1st and August 31st, 2021 to explore the patients and visitors' experiences and the impact of...
A total of 238 patients were interviewed. For patients with visitors, 98% felt that the presence of visitors improved their overall wellbeing and satisfaction. Additionally, 86% reported that visitors...
This study demonstrates that visitation for COVID-19 patients can be done safely and that there is a positive impact on patient wellbeing with increased visitor access. As we move towards COVID-19 end...
To characterize nurses' experiences of restrictive visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic....
In early 2023, an exploratory study investigated professional RNs' perceptions of restrictive visitation policies and end-of-life care during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on experiences between Mar...
Among the 41 survey respondents (response rate of 4%), 75.6% observed patients dying alone due to visitation restrictions during March-September 2020, with 87.8% noting strict no-visitation policies, ...
The findings revealed insights into nurses' experiences and perspectives on end-of-life care and visitation limitations during the pandemic. While the isolation of patients during times of strict visi...
To investigate the beliefs and attitudes of intensive care unit (ICU) nurses and patients' family members towards an open visitation policy in the ICU in China and to explore the reasons that promote ...
Open visitation policies are widely recommended in many countries. However, there are gaps between evidence and practice. Most ICUs in China still use a restrictive policy for family visits, which rai...
A multicentre survey was conducted in seven hospitals in China. The Beliefs and Attitudes towards Visitation in the Intensive Care Unit Questionnaire (BAVIQ) was administered to ICU nurses and patient...
Among nurses, the belief scale score was 2.87 ± 0.33 (range 2-4), and the attitude scale score was 5.53 ± 1.12 (range 2.33-7). The belief scale was divided into three subscales: nurses, patients, and ...
Nurses' beliefs and attitudes towards implementing an open visitation policy in China are at a less positive level than those of patient family members....
The beliefs and attitudes of nurses towards open visitation policy in China need to be improved. The question of how to mobilize nurses' enthusiasm for an open visitation policy poses a challenge for ...
To investigate the effect of video visitation on intensive care patients' and family members' outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic....
This is a randomised controlled trial....
An adult intensive care unit in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China....
A total of 121 adults, who were >18 years of age, conscious, able to communicate verbally, and admitted to the intensive care unit for over 24 hours were randomised into the intervention (video visita...
There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in patients' anxiety (t = 1.328, p = 0.187) and depression scores (t = 1.569, p = 0.119); and no statistically significant differ...
Video visitation did not seem to influence anxiety, but the use of video visitation can improve the patient and their family members' satisfaction. Future research is needed to determine the feasibili...
Video visitation improved patient and family members' satisfaction. Therefore, clinicians should consider using video visitation when face to face visit is restricted. Video visVitation did not reduce...
We aimed to synthesize the qualitative evidence on the impacts of COVID-19-related restricted family presence policies from the perspective of patients, families, and healthcare professionals from neo...
We searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Databases of Reviews and Clinical Trials, CINAHL, Scopus, PsycINFO, and Web of Science. Two researchers independently reviewed titles/abstracts and full-text arti...
We synthesized 54 findings from 184 studies, revealing the impacts of these policies in children and adults on: (1) Family integrated care and patient and family-centered care (e.g., disruption to bre...
This review highlights the multifaceted impacts of restricted visitation policies across distinct care settings and strategies to mitigate the harmful effects of these policies and guide the creation ...
https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=290263 ....
Visitor-centered approaches have been widely discussed in the museum experience research field. One notable approach was suggested by Falk and Dierking, who defined museum visitor experience as having...
Hand hygiene is a simple and low-cost practice to prevent the spread of many micro-organisms that cause healthcare-associated infections....
This is a descriptive study designed to investigate the compliance of patient companions and visitors with hand hygiene....
The study included 209 companions and visitors of patients hospitalized in a university hospital in the west of Turkey. A demographics and hand hygiene questionnaire and a hand hygiene practice observ...
Of the patient companions and visitors, 96.2% stated that they did not receive training on the importance of handwashing during their stay in the hospital, and 74.6% stated that handwashing was very i...
The patient companions and visitors received no training on the importance of hand hygiene during the hospital stay, and the observed rate of compliance with hand hygiene was lower than stated. Recomm...
This integrative review explored violence against emergency nurses by patients/visitors, examining its nature, contributing factors and consequences....
Integrative review....
Articles were obtained from PubMed, CINAHL, EMBASE, Web of Science and PsycInfo databases, up until December 2021....
26 articles were reviewed, evaluating study quality with the Crowe Critical Appraisal Tool and synthesizing conclusions through theme development and coding....
This review delves into the issue of violence perpetrated against emergency nurses by patients and visitors. It elucidates three overarching themes: the nature of violence, the contributing factors an...
The findings inform healthcare policy for the development of prevention approaches while identifying research gaps and emphasizing the need for alternative study designs and methodologies....
This review has implications for nursing practice, policymaking and research, emphasizing the need for stakeholder engagement and tailored interventions for at-risk emergency nurses....
This project was an integrative review of the literature therefore no patient or public contribution was necessary....
Violence by patients and visitors in healthcare settings, especially in emergency departments, has garnered considerable attention....
This review specifically examines violence-targeting emergency department nurses from patients and visitors, assessing its characteristics, contributing factors and consequences....
The findings will guide stakeholder engagement in developing interventions to support vulnerable emergency nurses....
Humans are a constant in the lives of captive animals, but the effects of human-animal interactions vary. Research on the welfare impacts of human-animal interactions focus predominantly on mammals, w...
This analysis investigates the concept of violence against nurses by patients and visitors in the emergency department. It aims to differentiate, clarify, and clearly identify this specific concept, w...
Due to contextual factors, occupational risk and patient characteristics, violence against nurses by patients and visitors in the emergency department varies from other types of violence against other...
This study employed Walker and Avant's concept analysis technique....
The analysis found that violence against nurses by patients and visitors in the emergency department is primarily an occurrence of interpersonal violence based on the working relationship, whereby the...
A clearer understanding of the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of violence against nurses by patients and visitors arising from this concept analysis provides a framework that will assist in...
Nursing managers are encouraged to adopt strategies that act on the factors related to attributes and antecedents that will serve to reduce the occurrence of intentional violent acts....
