Traditional/Restrictive vs Patient-Centered Intensive Care Unit Visitation: Perceptions of Patients' Family Members, Physicians, and Nurses

Open visitation and nurse job satisfaction: An integrative review

“…Additionally, Riley et al. () found that open visitation reduced the need for long‐lasting family conferences. Because of these benefits, nurses are optimistic about liberal visitation.…”

Defining the Medical Intensive Care Unit in the Words of Patients and Their Family Members: A Freelisting Analysis

“…Listing of the term caring by many participants and the salience of this term among all subgroups analyzed suggest that compassionate care is of primary importance to patients and patients' families, regardless of patients' clinical outcomes. The importance of caring is further supported by the results of Riley et al, 38 who noted that compassion and concern were important themes identified by patients' family members, nurses, and physicians during focus-group discussions about patient-centered ICUs. The overall similarity in responses from patients and from family members is not surprising.…”

Seeking to humanize intensive care

“…However, the real foundation of this policy is tradition and a lack of critical reflection on its drawbacks. (2) Families demand more time and the possibility to coordinate visits with their personal and work obligations. (3) The experience of some units, such as pediatric and neonatal ICUs, in which the family is considered to be fundamental for comprehensive patient care, has led to the need to consider other models.…”