C301.Attempt1.docx C301 Increasing family presence in Interdisciplinary Team Rounds W

C301.Attempt1.docx  C301  Increasing family presence in  Interdisciplinary Team Rounds   Western Governors University  Increasing family presence in Interdisciplinary Team Rounds  Millions of patients are hospitalized across the nation daily, for various reasons their family or designated caregiver are not able to come to the hospital to visit. This increasingly true with many hospitals not allowing visitors recently due to COVID-19. In these incidents the patient™s family or designated caregiver are at the mercy of the physicians and practitioners at the bedside to give them updates on their loved ones. Physicians and practitioners at the bedside are busy treating patients and often overlook updating patients™ families and designated caregivers; rather they rely on the family or designated caregiver to call them and ask for updates. Often when patients™ families and designated caregivers call the physician