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Detailed Needs and Requirements: Intensive Care Units
9. Clinical Laboratory
Laboratory personnel may come to these units for the collection of
samples to be processed in the central clinical laboratory. In some
cases, laboratory personnel may work part-time or full-time in
laboratories on the units.
10. Radiology
Personnel may come to these units to make exposures with portable
equipment. If the work load is great enough and facilities are provided,
they may be assigned to these units on a part-time or full-time basis.
11. Maintenance
See 512.2.
12. Building Management
See 512.3.
13. Dietary
See 522.1.4, 14.
14. Visitors
It may be desirable to allow relatives of patients in intensive or cardiac
care units to visit them frequently at any time of the day or night. Such
visits should not conflict with other activities on the unit, and therefore,
they may be unpredictably suspended at times. A waiting area
adjacent to the unit should be available for the use of visitors before or
between allowed visits. Visitors should be able to travel from this area
to the patient's bedside without disturbing or observing other patients.
Facilities for private conversations between relatives and attending
physicians or social workers should also be available.
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