Satisfaction With Elimination of all Visitation Restrictions in a Mixed-Profile Intensive Care Unit

Diane K Chapman¹, Dave S Collingridge¹, Lorie A Mitchell¹+4

• ¹At the time this article was researched Diane K. Chapman was a staff nurse in the shock trauma intensive care unit and a member of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care at Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, Utah. Dave S. Collingridge is a statistician in the Statistical Data Center, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, Utah. Lorie A. Mitchell is nurse manager of the shock trauma intensive care unit and a nursing researcher in the Center for Humanizing Critical Care. Elizabeth S. Wright was assistant nurse manager of the shock trauma intensive care unit at Intermountain Medical Center. Ramona O. Hopkins is a research psychologist in the Center for Humanizing Critical Care; a professor in the Psychology Department and Neuroscience Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; and a researcher in the Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Intermountain Medical Center. Jorie M. Butler is a health psychologist in the Center for Humanizing Critical Care; associate director for education and evaluation at GRECC, core investigator at the IDEAS 2.0 at the Salt Lake Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; and an assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics, Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. Samuel M. Brown is director of the Center for Humanizing Critical Care, Intermountain Healthcare, Murray, Utah; an assistant professor in the Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; and an intensivist in the Department of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Intermountain Medical Center.+1