{"id":13318,"date":"2016-12-05T14:27:14","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=13318"},"modified":"2020-12-21T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T19:42:11","slug":"neuroscience-observation-area","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/clinical-services\/deptpgrmcs\/programs\/neuroscience-observation-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience Observation Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Neuroscience Observation Area, or NOA, is a step-down unit for patients who have had any number of neurological issues.\u00a0 This 12 bed unit is designed for patients who require more intensive monitoring than the regular neuroscience wards provide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visiting Hours<\/strong>: During this stressful time, visiting with family and significant others is important to the patient\u2019s well-being.\u00a0 However rest is an essential part of the healing process, particularly for brain injured patients.\u00a0 Therefore we ask you to respect visiting hours.\u00a0 To protect patient confidentiality we ask that you not visit during change of shift or outside of visiting hours.<\/p>\n<p>Visiting is welcome during these times:<\/p>\n<p>10am until 1:30p.m<br \/>\n3p.m. to 6 p.m.<br \/>\n8p.m. until 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>These hours help the nurses and doctors to meet the patients\u2019 needs in the early morning as well as doing a thorough assessment and giving nursing care.\u00a0 We also ask that only two visitors be in the unit at a time.\u00a0 Others may wait in the family waiting room.\u00a0 Please keep your visits brief and change off with those waiting to see the patient. Please do not wait outside the patient\u2019s room.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Children Visiting<\/strong>: Please discuss the appropriateness of children visiting with your nurse.\u00a0 Children can be easily frightened in this environment.\u00a0 Our housekeeping staff members work diligently to keep our unit clean, however, children are at greater risk of becoming infected with bacteria common to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flowers\/Balloons<\/strong>:\u00a0 We do not allow flowers, balloons, baby powder or scented products in our unit due to allergies of staff and patients.\u00a0 Visitors wearing scents may be asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Designated Family Member<\/strong>: Our goal is to give the best nursing care possible to our patients.\u00a0 Answering the phone numerous times throughout the day distracts us from being able to meet that goal.\u00a0 We thus appoint one family member to whom we will provide all updates of information.\u00a0 It is up to this person to inform the other family members and friends and keep them updated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Patient Phone:<\/strong>\u00a0 We have one patient phone which can be plugged into the bedside of any patient.\u00a0 If you call the NOA unit we can then set up a phone at the patient\u2019s bedside and transfer your call.<\/p>\n<h2>Contact Us<\/h2>\n<p>Phone Number: 613-798-5555 ext. 15491<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview The Neuroscience Observation Area, or NOA, is a step-down unit for patients who have had any number of neurological issues.\u00a0 This 12 bed unit is designed for patients who require more intensive monitoring than the regular neuroscience wards provide. Visiting Hours: During this stressful time, visiting with family and significant others is important to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":7864,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13318","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13318\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}