New visiting policy: A step toward nursing ethics
Background:Patients’ rights arise from their expectations of the healthcare system, which are rooted in their needs. Visitation is seen as a necessary need for patients and families in intensive care units.Objectives:The authors attempted to design, implement, and evaluate a new visiting policy in t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2019
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| In: |
Nursing ethics
Year: 2019, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 293-306 |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethics
B visiting policy B Intensive Care Unit B patient right B flexible visiting |
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| Summary: | Background:Patients’ rights arise from their expectations of the healthcare system, which are rooted in their needs. Visitation is seen as a necessary need for patients and families in intensive care units.Objectives:The authors attempted to design, implement, and evaluate a new visiting policy in the intensive care units.Research design:This study was an action research, including two qualitative and quantitative approaches.Participants and research context:The viewpoints of 51 participants (patients, families, doctors, nurses, and guards) on how to change the limited visiting policy were explained through semi-structured interviews and focus groups. The new visiting policy (contractual visitation) was designed, implemented, and evaluated with the involvement of participants.Ethical considerations:The hospital ethics committee approval was gained and the informed consent was obtained from all the participants.Findings:The content of interviews was analyzed and classified into four categories: advantages and disadvantages of visiting policies, and barriers and facilitators of changing the limited visiting policy. After implementation of the new policy (contractual visitation), a significant difference observed in satisfaction status before and after the changes (p value < 0.001).Discussion:Nowadays, many countries’ clinical guidelines recommend flexible visiting policy, which is consistent with the results of this study.Conclusion:Changing the limited visiting policy was a necessary need for patients and families that established with the involvement of them and staff. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-0989 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nursing ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0969733017703701 |