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Our pediatric unit has private rooms for the kids and some semiprivate rooms that adults go in or teenagers or if need the rooms for more children... never do we mix a child with an adult ... the parents of the children do not like that we have adults on the same floor (nor do we) the adults are very demanding and take away form our kids... I know with the low census of pediatric admissions that adults need to be to a degree but it doesn't stop when we have kids, we still get sent adults...

I work in a community hospital in Pediatrics... we get some very inappropriate adult (over flow) patients whether our peds census is up or down- all depends on the rest of the hospitals census what they do to us... is there any regs protecting the children of what kind of adult patients can be there? I live in NJ... Was wondering what kind of guidelines others have tht take over flow adults... I have read some on here already but wanted to see if there are any regulations I can take back to my job......