Do your parents have to wear cover gowns when visiting?

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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.

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Specializes in NICU.

no, they aren't required to

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No parents in our unit have to wear cover gowns.

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Specializes in NICU, PICU, educator.

no they aren't

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Specializes in NICU.

Nope. Not even with contact precautions.

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

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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.

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

No, only if on contact or protective isolation.

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Specializes in NICU.

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

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Nope.

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Specializes in ICU.

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

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Specializes in CICU.

If they are going to hold then yes.

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