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I don’t want to go to deeply into the facts but basically if an elderly person who is recovering from a stroke didn’t want their son to visit them in hospital how would we go about this?
Is it a case of telling the charge nurse/ sister etc and then they can stop them coming?
It’s a care home / rehab physio type of place he’s in now.
Thanks
I guess so…speak to ward manager etc and tell them to tell “X” that “patient Y isn’t having any visitors…”
DrP
Thanks, I will have a word.
I have no particular knowledge of hospital or care home procedure, but I'd assume that whoever is saying there should be no visitors must either be the patient, or somebody with legal power to act for them, such as Power of Attorney. Otherwise a prospective visitor (particularly if they're family) can ask for visitors to be permitted and reverse the decision. If using a PoA, the action needs to be in the best interests of the person acted for, so if you're asking for no visitors, you might have to indicate why it's in the patient's best interest.
Is it a case of telling the charge nurse/ sister etc and then they can stop them coming?
Yes. BTW charge nurse is the only term used now. Sister is archaic and not been used for decades
A POA makes it more powerful coming from you but even without the charge nurse should check with the patient and if they say the son is not to visit then thats what happens assuming they can make their wishes known. I have dealt with this on more than one occasion.
You will need to tell the charge nurse why as well probably.
Its not an uncommon situation
Thanks guys, he can communicate quite well but he asked my wife to tell his son which she doesn’t want to do for various reasons which I won’t go into on a public forum but I shall visit him ( the patient ) myself and explain the situation to him and to the charge nurse and take it from there.