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Abstract
Open visiting policy may give the nurse an opportunity to educate the family, allow the family to help both the patient and the staff, and cause the providers to be more considerate of the patient’s dignity, and privacy. Critical care nurses have both positive and negative beliefs about open visiting hours in the ICUs. It is thought that, beliefs of critical care nurses regarding open visiting in the intensive care units may vary according to critical care nurses’ age, marital status, level education, and ICU experience. Hence, the present study aimed to determine the critical care nurses’ beliefs regarding open visiting in the ICUs.
The study was conducted in the following Intensive Care Units: Casualty (Unit I), General (Unit III), Neurosurgical, Open Heart Surgery, Coronary, and Respiratory at Alexandria Main University Hospital, University of Alexandria. The study subjects included critical care nurses working in the above mentioned intensive care units (150 critical care nurses). However, nurses with working experience of less than 6 months were excluded from the study.
Tool:
’’Nurses’ beliefs regarding open visiting’’ questionnaire was the tool used to elicit critical care nurses’ beliefs regarding open visiting in the intensive care units. This tool comprised three main parts. (Appendix II).