Requirements for entering the Intensive Care Units

The most significant requirement in order to be protected from infection in intensive care units is ensuring the hand hygiene. Therefore, the hand hygiene should be ensured before and after each contact with the patients in patient visits. For that reason, after you spray the disinfectant, which is located on the bedside of the patient, on your hand, rub your hands properly and wait until it dries. Perform the same procedure after you contact with the patient, before you leave the intensive care unit, visit the patient after you wash your hands with the liquid soap in the washbasins, which are located in the entrance of the intensive care unit and dry, and definitely repeat the same procedure while you are leaving. Do not contact the other patients, other than yours, and the materials.

It is not necessary to wear apron, overshoes, mask and gloves while coming in the Intensive Care Units. These specific clothes are only used for particular patients who are determined by the physicians and nurses.

The physicians make the decision about visiting the patients with weakened immune system or an infectious disease. Visit of the isolated patients is allowed by providing the isolation information to the relatives of these patients.

Ask your concerns about your patient only the physician and the nurse of your patient, not the relatives of other patients or other physicians and medical staff.