ArticleIntensive & critical care nursing2022
Practice of family-centred care in intensive care units before the COVID-19-pandemic: A cross-sectional analysis in German-speaking countries.
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- Certification of a Family-Friendly Intensive Care Unit-Families Are Always Welcome!Nursing in critical care · 2025Article
- [Challenges and perspectives of family support in the intensive care unit: focus on vulnerable relatives].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2025Review
- [Relatives after a stay on the intensive care unit: a care gap to be closed].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2024Article
- Ten recommendations for child-friendly visiting policies in critical care.Intensive care medicine · 2023Article
- An integrated review: connecting Covid-era hospital visiting policies to family engagement.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- [The intensive care diary-a communication tool].Procare : das forbildungsmagazin fur pflegeberufe · 2023Article
- [The intensive care diary-a communication tool].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2022Review
- Reflections on the Concomitants of the Restrictive Visitation Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ubuntu Perspective.Frontiers in sociology · 2021Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo provide insights into visiting policies and family-centred care practices with a focus on children as visitors in Intensive Care Units in German-speaking countries. METHODS/
designOnline-survey with a mixed methods approach. Leading clinicians (n = 1943) from German-speaking countries were invited to participate. Outcomes included the percentage of intensive care units with open visiting policies, age restrictions, family-centred care activities and barriers.
settingPaediatric, mixed and adult units
resultsIn total, 19.8% (n = 385) of the clinicians responded. Open visiting times were reported by 36.3% (n = 117), with significant differences between paediatric (79.2%), adult (21.3%) and mixed-age (41.2%) units (p < 0.01). Two-thirds of clinicians stated that their units had no age restrictions for children as visitors (n = 221, 68.4%). The family-centred care activities most frequently implemented were open visiting times and dissemination of information. Significantly more German units have open visiting policies and more Swiss units allow children as visitors, compared to the other countries (both p < 0.001). Barriers to family-centred care were concerns about children being traumatized, infection and workload.
conclusionThe majority reported that family-centred care policies had been implemented in their units, including open visiting policies, allowing children as visitors without age restriction and other family-centred care activities.
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