{"id":2106,"date":"2021-09-08T23:15:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2021-09-08T23:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T23:17:03","slug":"hospital-visitation-restrictions-are-hurting-patients-and-nurses-new-protocols-and-covid-mitigation-techniques-can-enable-safe-visitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2106","title":{"rendered":"Hospital Visitation Restrictions Are Hurting Patients and Nurses \u2014 New protocols and COVID mitigation techniques can enable safe visitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Medpage Today |\u00a0 by\u00a0<span class=\"author-name-no-email\">Karen Cox, PhD, RN, and Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mpt-content-date\">September 2, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mpt-content-region\">\n<div id=\"js-main-content-region\" class=\"main-content-region\">\n<div class=\"mpt-social-share\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mpt-media-container image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mpt-media-container--mpt-image\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.medpagetoday.net\/media\/images\/94xxx\/94340.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of a nurse holding the hand of a dying patient.\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As COVID-19 began rapidly spreading across the U.S., hospitals adopted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/10.1056\/NEJMp2007781\" target=\"_blank\">policies that prohibited patient visitation<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; a move that was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/hcp\/non-us-settings\/hcf-visitors.html\" target=\"_blank\">designed to prevent<\/a>\u00a0the spread of the virus and ensure the safest environment possible. A year and a half later, we are battling new variants of COVID-19 and finding ourselves in the same predicament: nurses are serving as surrogates for family members as patients take their final breaths so they won&#8217;t die alone.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/94340?fbclid=IwAR0mIOtCfnWnnwafvrnFcTaMPdHmGL55ovqDi8i3Ho_VIA1qsxR9wgldJqU&amp;vpass=1\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medpage Today |\u00a0 by\u00a0Karen Cox, PhD, RN, and Tejal K. Gandhi, MD, MPH\u00a0September 2, 2021 As COVID-19 began rapidly spreading across the U.S., hospitals adopted\u00a0policies that prohibited patient visitation\u00a0&#8212; a <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2106\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,59],"tags":[789,702,400,715],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-covid-19","tag-engaged-patient","tag-hospital-visiting-policies","tag-person-centered-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}