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Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic
OBJECTIVE: To examine the perceptions of labor and delivery (L&D) nurses and childbearing women in the postpartum period regarding a restricted visitor policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Descriptive mixed-methods survey and open-ended questions. SETTING/LOCAL PROBLEM: One hospital in t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187511/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35697080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nwh.2022.05.002 |
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author | Elling, Christine Sleutel, Martha Rider Wells, JoNell Newcomb, Patricia Valdez, Ericka Walker, Krystal Nguyen, Tina |
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description | OBJECTIVE: To examine the perceptions of labor and delivery (L&D) nurses and childbearing women in the postpartum period regarding a restricted visitor policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Descriptive mixed-methods survey and open-ended questions. SETTING/LOCAL PROBLEM: One hospital in the southwestern United States. There is limited evidence regarding recently imposed visitor restrictions related to COVID-19. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals who were pregnant and self-identified as women who gave birth during October 2020 through March 2021 (n = 674) and L&D nurses (n = 47). INTERVENTION/MEASUREMENTS: Participants who had given birth with visitor restrictions completed an online survey, and L&D nurses completed a paper survey. RESULTS: Childbearing women had positive and negative views; they valued a more intimate familial bonding and recovery without visitors and appreciated decreased pressure to accommodate family/friends. They were also disappointed with sibling restrictions and were sad and frustrated with visitor limitations, especially in special circumstances (e.g., NICU admission or extended stays). Nurses expressed that visitor restrictions allowed more time for higher-quality nursing care/patient teaching and decreased distractions in emergencies, leading to safer care. Women and nurses reported that visitor restrictions allowed women more rest and relaxation as well as less worry and strain from juggling family and friends who wanted to visit, but they also identified that there was decreased family support when it was needed. CONCLUSION: Women’s responses were mixed, with some preferring support from many visitors, while others appreciated the intimate focus of just their partner. Most nurses preferred fewer visitors but could empathize with women. |
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spelling | pubmed-91875112022-06-13 Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic Elling, Christine Sleutel, Martha Rider Wells, JoNell Newcomb, Patricia Valdez, Ericka Walker, Krystal Nguyen, Tina Nurs Womens Health Clinical Evaluation & Improvement OBJECTIVE: To examine the perceptions of labor and delivery (L&D) nurses and childbearing women in the postpartum period regarding a restricted visitor policy during the COVID-19 pandemic. DESIGN: Descriptive mixed-methods survey and open-ended questions. SETTING/LOCAL PROBLEM: One hospital in the southwestern United States. There is limited evidence regarding recently imposed visitor restrictions related to COVID-19. PARTICIPANTS: Individuals who were pregnant and self-identified as women who gave birth during October 2020 through March 2021 (n = 674) and L&D nurses (n = 47). INTERVENTION/MEASUREMENTS: Participants who had given birth with visitor restrictions completed an online survey, and L&D nurses completed a paper survey. RESULTS: Childbearing women had positive and negative views; they valued a more intimate familial bonding and recovery without visitors and appreciated decreased pressure to accommodate family/friends. They were also disappointed with sibling restrictions and were sad and frustrated with visitor limitations, especially in special circumstances (e.g., NICU admission or extended stays). Nurses expressed that visitor restrictions allowed more time for higher-quality nursing care/patient teaching and decreased distractions in emergencies, leading to safer care. Women and nurses reported that visitor restrictions allowed women more rest and relaxation as well as less worry and strain from juggling family and friends who wanted to visit, but they also identified that there was decreased family support when it was needed. CONCLUSION: Women’s responses were mixed, with some preferring support from many visitors, while others appreciated the intimate focus of just their partner. Most nurses preferred fewer visitors but could empathize with women. AWHONN 2022-08 2022-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9187511/ /pubmed/35697080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nwh.2022.05.002 Text en © 2022 AWHONN. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Evaluation & Improvement Elling, Christine Sleutel, Martha Rider Wells, JoNell Newcomb, Patricia Valdez, Ericka Walker, Krystal Nguyen, Tina Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title | Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full | Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_fullStr | Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_full_unstemmed | Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_short | Women’s and Nurses’ Perceptions of Visitor Restrictions After Childbirth During the COVID-19 Pandemic |
title_sort | women’s and nurses’ perceptions of visitor restrictions after childbirth during the covid-19 pandemic |
topic | Clinical Evaluation & Improvement |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9187511/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35697080 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nwh.2022.05.002 |
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