mandatory designated quiet time

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My hospital was so successful at promoting 24/7 visiting in ICU, that they now started having a mandatory "quiet time"; because there are visitors at all times of day and night. Quiet time starts at 12:30 pm which is lunch time for patients. They want us to go around shutting the blinds, turn off the lights and not allow visitors. But it's lunch time. What time does your hospital have designated as mandatory quiet time?

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Vistiting is 1400-1730 and then 1815-2000. Unless the patient is critically ill, dying or needs assistance with feeding.No children under 8 and two visitors at a time.

I love the quiet time as i can do my drugs and dressings without having a million and one relatives gawping at me or asking questions.

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Quiet time starts as soon as I get my med cart ready to start my shift. I dim the lights. It calms down the resident om 3-11

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Specializes in ER.

Reply about the bedpans -

I'm working in a UK hospital at the moment, so there are anywher from 4-10 patients to a room.

Would you honestly want to eat your meal when the person in the next bed (maybe 5 feet away) is groaning away and stinking the place out pooing into a bedpan?

If they are able to be moved into a wheelchair, then we will wheel then out to a bathroom and help them onto the toilet.

Bedpans are offered prior to the meal, and they are told that they cannot use them during the meal out of consideration for their neighbors.

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Reply about the bedpans -

I'm working in a UK hospital at the moment, so there are anywher from 4-10 patients to a room.

Would you honestly want to eat your meal when the person in the next bed (maybe 5 feet away) is groaning away and stinking the place out pooing into a bedpan?

If they are able to be moved into a wheelchair, then we will wheel then out to a bathroom and help them onto the toilet.

Bedpans are offered prior to the meal, and they are told that they cannot use them during the meal out of consideration for their neighbors.

No, I would not want to eat my meal while a person is pooing and grunting away, but I wouldn't want to eat my meal while the person has a big stinky accident in their bed. Which is worse?

Frankly, I'd rather be moved into a wheelchair and helped to a toilet any day, but for some patients that is not possible. What if they can't wait? What happens then?

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No, I would not want to eat my meal while a person is pooing and grunting away, but I wouldn't want to eat my meal while the person has a big stinky accident in their bed. Which is worse?

Frankly, I'd rather be moved into a wheelchair and helped to a toilet any day, but for some patients that is not possible. What if they can't wait? What happens then?

What happens then?

Whatever we do will be wrong - either risk a complaint fom another patient and their family because we DO get a bedpan, or risk a complaint from the patient that we DON'T get a bedpan for.

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Point taken Skylark. Seems to suck for all involved!

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Specializes in Med-Surg/home health/pacu/cardiac icu.

My hospital used to have set visiting times. Now, the hospital has a new policy that anybody can visit at any time. The hospital cites the new CMS rules for this new policy. Of course, this is so fun when a patient is in a semi-private room and decides to have 20 zillion visitors at 0330.:mad: Of course, the other patient in the semi-private room would love to sleep but cannot due to all the noise from the neighboring patient.

http://beyondhealthcarereform.com/2011/01/cms-publishes-new-rule-requiring-equal-visitation-rights/

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We do not have a quiet time. Seems pretty unrealistic. At least on my unit. We also have 24/7 visiting hours.

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