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Results 120 nurses who are working at medical and surgical intensive care units have been included in the study. Mean age for the nurses is 29 ± 5.7 and 82.5% of them have bachelor’s degrees. All the nurses participating in the study stated that patient visiting hours are not completely flexible and individual, age and time constrictions do exist. 88.3% of the nurses stated that they take isolation precautions for the visitors when the visitors are in the intensive care unit. 92.3% of the medical intensive care nurses and 52% of the surgical intensive care nurses see the patient visiting hours as a source of stress. Furthermore, 52.3% of the nurses with 1 to 5 years of ICU work time, 61% of the nurses with 6 to 10 years of ICU work time, 61.4% of the nurses with 11 to 15 years of ICU work time and 87.5% of the nurses with more than 15 years of ICU work time states that patient visiting hours increase their work load. Statistically this is significant. 57% of the nurses consider the visiting hours as having a negative impact on the nursing care given to the patients. About the appropriate visiting hours, 10% of the nurses state that as long as full isolation precautions are applied there should be no restrictions, 89.2% of the nurses state that time, individual and age restrictions should be applied, and 0.8% of the nurses state that it should be severely restricted and a rigid observation of rules should be applied.

ASSESSMENT OF THE VIEWS OF INTENSIVE CARE NURSES ABOUT THE EFFECT OF PATIENT VISITING HOURS ON PATIENTS AND NURSING CARE