DBellevi

Just wondering what other NICU visitation policies are and if you know of any research done to support your policy? I work in a 31 bed private room level 3b. Parents may visit anytime and stay overnight. They may bring guests with them over 18 years of age between 9am and 9pm, the guest have to be with a parent at all times. Siblings may visit with parents regardless of age. A health quesionaire has to be completed before anyone visits with certain criteria (immunizations, recent illness etc). Only parents are allowed to hold and grandparents with parents permission.

I am seeing this after your meeting date but the hospital where I work once had a 6 bed SCN with 2 nurses scheduled per shift and did about 90 births/month. SCN nurses were required to attend all high risk deliveries and c-sections. If there was even 1 SCN patient then both nurses had to be in house. One nurse would take the pt assignment and the other was assigned to deliveries and would attend every delivery and stay to do all initial baby care. She would also help with the well baby assessments on the floor. If there were no SCN patients one nurse would be mandatory called off (downstaffed on call) and the other would do the role of deliveries, NBN/well baby assessments. They offered SCN nurses to be cross trained to PP if they wanted to so they could work there instead of being downstaffed and most of them chose to do it rather than being called off.

I work in a 31 bed Level III and we filter all of our fluids except Lipids, insulin, and prostaglandins. I am curious about the literature to support not filtering, does anyone know of any studies or articles for reference?