Northside Hospital - Special Beginnings

INFECTION PREVENTION Parents share the responsibility of preventing their baby’s exposure to visitors who are sick. You may consider limiting visitors to protect your baby. If you or any visitor has a cold, cough, skin infection, fever blister, diarrhea or other such contagious diseases, please postpone your visit until you are completely recovered. • WASH YOUR HANDS THOROUGHLY WITH SOAP AND WATER FOR 15 SECONDS EACH TIME YOU ENTER THE SCN AS WELL AS BEFORE AND AFTER PARTICIPATING IN YOUR BABY’S CARE. • To protect your baby consider placing cell phones/ Chicken pox: Chicken pox is a highly contagious, airborne disease that is life threatening to the babies in SCN. Chicken pox is contagious 2 days before bumps appear. Visitors who have never had chicken pox but have been exposed to it must wait 21 days after exposure before entering the SCN. Baby’s personal items: We encourage you to bring personal items for your baby. Please check with your baby’s nurse regarding appropriate clothes and toys. Save valuable, breakable or sentimental items for when your baby goes home, as we cannot be responsible for lost items. Please label all items and wash all clothing you bring for your baby. devices in a baggie when you enter the SCN. • Remember to wash your hands after every electronic device use.

Wash your hands thoroughly each time you enter the SCN. Our SCN babies are very susceptible to infection.

Photos: You may take pictures of your baby at any time.

Privacy: Privacy is very important. Please do not ask us about the other babies in the SCN. Please stay with your baby when you are in the SCN and do not walk around looking at the other babies. We also ask you to share this information with your visitors.

Special Beginnings in the Special Care Nurseries

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