24 hour visiting

[ICU4U]

Help I hate my job now.. we went 24 hour open, my patients get no rest, we have no control people walking in on procedures in process and they think they own the place.. my husband was in as a patient a few weeks ago and from the patient standpoint he hated it too. said peoples cells were ringing all night and they were coming and going he couldn't sleep at all... what ever person came up with this is nutz... all we think about is making the family happy what about the patient and the staff.. we deserve to have some piece. No other job is like this... patient satisfaction scores... choose our hospital people don't come here because they want to.. they have to.. and dont get me wrong we treat our patients top notch.. but I am sick of catering to the family when my patient in the next room is crashing.. I was in a code not to long ago and the family of my other patient actually came to the room and asked me if I could pull up their family in bed.. our hospital didnt change the procedures we just push the button and let in everyone.

[raedar63]

I feel your pain !

[PMFB-RN, RN]

WOW! It amazes me in this day and age hospitals are still doing this! Must be very old fashioned. Do they still make nurses where caps? 24 hours visiting was shown long ago to contribute to longer ICU stays, increased infection rates, and lower patient satisfaction scores. I think it was year 2001 when I first attended a local meeting of the AACN and research finding were presented showing that, and it was by no means new information back then.

Tell your administrators to ge on board with this great new (not) concept in nursing called "evidenced based practice".

[NicuGal, MSN, RN]

Now it is all about Family Center Care...Joint Commission wants family involvement and input now.