dc.contributor.author | Jensen, Hanne Irene | |
dc.contributor.author | Åkerman, Eva | |
dc.contributor.author | Lind, Ranveig | |
dc.contributor.author | Alfheim, Hanne Birgit | |
dc.contributor.author | Frivold, Gro | |
dc.contributor.author | Fridh, Isabell | |
dc.contributor.author | Ågård, Anne Sophie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-25T12:56:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-25T12:56:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-07-26 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Objectives: To examine conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)-related visiting restrictions in Scandinavian intensive care units.
<p>Research methodology/design: A cross-sectional survey.
<p>Setting: Adult intensive care units in Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
<p>Main outcome measures: Likert scale responses and free-text comments within six areas: capacity and staffing, visiting policies and access to the unit, information and conferences with relatives, written information, children as relatives and follow-up initiatives.
<p>Results: The overall response rate was 53% (74/140 participating units). All intensive care units had planned for capacity extensions; the majority ranging between 11 and 30 extra beds. From March–June 2020, units had a mean maximum of 9.4 COVID-19 patients simultaneously. Allowing restricted visiting was more common in Denmark (52%) and Norway (61%) than in Sweden where visiting was mostly denied except for dying patients (68%), due to a particular increased number of COVID-19 patients. The restrictions forced nurses to compromise on their usual standards of family care. Numerous models for maintaining contact between relatives and patients were described.
<p>Conclusion: Visitation restrictions compromised the quality of family care and entailed dilemmas for healthcare professionals but also spurred initiatives to developing new ways of providing family care. | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Jensen, Åkerman, Lind, Alfheim, Frivold, Fridh, Ågård. Conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the COVID-19-related visiting restrictions in the intensive care unit: A Scandinavian cross-sectional study. Intensive & Critical Care Nursing. 2021:1-6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.cristinID | FRIDAID 1926519 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.iccn.2021.103116 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0964-3397 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1532-4036 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/22814 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.relation.journal | Intensive & Critical Care Nursing | |
dc.relation.uri | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iccn.2021.103116 | |
dc.rights.accessRights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | Copyright 2021 The Author(s) | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Medisinske fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Sykepleievitenskap: 808 | en_US |
dc.subject | VDP::Midical sciences: 700::Health sciences: 800::Nursing science: 808 | en_US |
dc.subject | Covid-19 / Covid-19 | en_US |
dc.subject | Korona / Corona | en_US |
dc.subject | Pårørende / Next of kin | en_US |
dc.subject | Sykehus / Hospitals | en_US |
dc.title | Conditions and strategies to meet the challenges imposed by the COVID-19-related visiting restrictions in the intensive care unit: A Scandinavian cross-sectional study | en_US |
dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Tidsskriftartikkel | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |