Do away with visiting hours at hopsitals?

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This was one thing I never really got. If the person wants visitors and they're not disturbing other patients, why restrict the hours they can visit?

"Our experience suggests that open visitation at both acute care and post acute care hospitals can
be accomplished with little disruption and improve the patient and family experience,” said
David J. Shulkin, MD, FACP, president, Morristown Medical Center. “Supporting patients in
away that allows them to be with family and loved ones can be an important component of the
healing experience and may reduce the anxiety and social isolation associated with illness.”​

http://www.nahq.org/uploads/JHQ_Stu...ctions_on_Hospital_Visiting_Hours_-_FINAL.pdf
 
I don't know, sounds like an incident waiting to happen. With visiting hours, you have the excuse of rules, but who knows what could happen then. What if one of the other patients really just wants peace and quiet but the other family is loud? These type of things seem simple enough, but can be tricky to navigate with varying situations.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
I don't know, sounds like an incident waiting to happen. With visiting hours, you have the excuse of rules, but who knows what could happen then. What if one of the other patients really just wants peace and quiet but the other family is loud? These type of things seem simple enough, but can be tricky to navigate with varying situations.
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People are already very quite in the hospital. I don't envision rowdiness there. Most people have respect for other patients unless it's the emergency room.
 
The only problem I'd imagine with that is that a lot of patients are semi-private rooms where they're sharing the room with another patient, and maybe that person doesn't want people in there all the time.
 
Never know when a flash mob may break out at a hospital. Looks like this is trying to prevent that.
 
because the hospital is a breeding ground for infections. need to limit the times of visiting hours so medical staff can try to slow a losing battle with germs
 
Oh god no. I spent a month in the hospital and the person I had to share the room with had a loud and obnoxious family. I preyed foe visiting hours to end.
 
It also requires more staffing to be present.

"Hey my mom needs/wants this, can you get it" isn't a problem during busy parts of the day when they can schedule to have more staff there.
 
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