Isolation In Single Rooms

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Isolation is a sense of not being apart of a community. Gilmartin, Grota, & Sousa (2013) state that isolation is being separated from groups or persons and emotionally having a negative outcome on an individual. A potential example of isolation in my clinical placement is patient’s who occupy single rooms despite not being on any isolation precautions. Those who are in shared rooms have the opportunity to communicate with their neighbours, where as, those are in single rooms who are able to ambulate do not have get the chance. In the article by Gilmartin et al., (2013) it discusses how the removal of human stimuli is disruptive and is crucial in maintaining normal and adaptive behavior. Further, those in single rooms are more at risk of developing