Do your parents have to wear cover gowns when visiting?

Specialties NICU

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Specializes in Level II & III NICU, Mother-Baby Unit.

Just wondering if your patient's parents must wear cover gowns when visiting their babies. I'm not talking about MRSA or other contact isolation precautions...

A "yes" or "no" answer would be appreciated.

Specializes in NICU.

no, they aren't required to

No parents in our unit have to wear cover gowns.

Specializes in NICU, PICU, educator.

no they aren't

Specializes in NICU.

Nope. Not even with contact precautions.

Not in my current unit. Though the first unit I was in, all had to in RSV season.

If your talking about the parents putting a cover such as a hospital gown over their clothes, yes they have to. If they are in isolation, they have to wear one of our isolation gowns too.

Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

No, only if on contact or protective isolation.

Specializes in NICU.

Nope (only if parent has MRSA or something like that.....) - we do have them scrub in first

Nope.

Specializes in ICU.

yes, visitors (including parents) who smoke must wear gowns when handling babies.

Specializes in CICU.

If they are going to hold then yes.

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