General Information Inpatient Pediatrics  We are an 18-bed multi-service unit. Visiting Hours  Smoking is not permitted anywhere on  Parents are encouraged to stay with Ward 4B hospital grounds! their child during their hospitalization; however one parent is permitted  Do not give your child medications overnight when a fold-out chair-bed is brought from home. Your child will available. Please do not sit or sleep on receive the medications supplied by patient beds, as these are for patient the hospital. Special arrangements use only. will be made if we do not carry the medication.  Visiting hours are from 1000-2000 (10am to 8pm) daily. The number of  If your spouse is aboard a ship or on visitors allowed at one time is deployment and has not been notified determined by the patient’s condition of your child’s hospitalization, the Red and number of patients assigned to Cross may be notified to send a each room. message. Call 953-5435.  Patients may not leave the ward unless  A duty Chaplain is available 24 hours accompanied by a parent or legal a day and can be contacted at your guardian and permission is obtained request. from the medical and nursing staff Naval Medical Center Portsmouth  The Fischer House may be available prior to leaving the ward. for families whose duty station is more  Siblings are welcome during visiting 620 John Paul Jones Circle than 50 miles from NMCP and the hours, provided they are up-to-date on length of stay for the patient is greater their immunizations and have not been than 3 days. Reservations can be Portsmouth, VA 23708 exposed to any illnesses within the last coordinated through the duty chaplain. 10 days. Siblings are to be under the Please let your nurse know if these direct supervision of the arrangements need to be made. parent/guardian at all times. Ward Phone: 953-4494  We have a Parent Lounge with  Quiet time begins at 2100 (9pm), computers with internet access. The please observe quiet time. All TVs, Hospital Main: 953-5000 ward also has wireless internet. radios, etc should be turned off or to the very lowest setting. Patients and visitors are requested to take this time for rest.  No running in the ward spaces. Please  The Child Life Room/Program may do not allow children to stand on the have activities which your child may bed or chairs. participate in, such as holiday parties Safety and craft time with volunteers.  If you bring personal items, they  Emergency call buttons are located at should be stored in the bedside tables Meals every bedside and in the bathrooms. or closet and labeled with the patient’s The nursing staff will orient you to the name. Please take all valuables home.  Meal trays are delivered for the room. patients at approximately 0700, 1130,  Due to a potential choking hazard and 1630. We have snacks and drinks for  SIDE RAILS MUST BE UP (in the potential latex allergies, only Mylar full position) at all times unless you or patient consumption in our nutrition balloons are allowed on the unit. No room. a staff member are standing directly rubber latex balloons, please. beside your child at the bedside with  An alternate menu is available for your child in full view. The bed Television / Playroom patients with an extended stay (>2 should remain in the lowest position weeks) and/or those who have poor unless a procedure is being done.  Televisions are available at each appetites or high energy needs. Please bedside free-of-charge.  Children (2) years old and younger ask staff for this menu if needed. will be placed in a crib.  The playroom is open from  A refrigerator in the nutrition room is 0800-2000 (8am-8pm) daily.  Please do not sleep in the bed or chair available for storing small quantities of with your child for safety reasons! If food. Airtight containers labeled with  Patients under the age of 12 must have the patient’s name and date is required you normally lie down with your child an adult present in the playroom at all to help them get to sleep, please assist for infection control reasons. Any times. Visiting siblings are welcome unlabeled containers will be discarded. your child then move to the chair-bed. to join the patient in the playroom under the same supervision.  Children will be transported to  Please inform the staff of the amount procedures via crib, gurney, wheel of food and drink given to your child  Parents are responsible for the so it may be properly documented. chair, or stroller. Safety belts will be behavior of their children, including used and secured at all times. Children the responsibility for keeping the  Parents/Visitors may find food at: cannot be carried off the unit by playroom and patient room neat. We parents and/or staff. are all responsible for maintaining a  Galley (Breakfast 0600-0800, safe environment for the children. Lunch 1100-1300,  Slippers or shoes must be worn by Toys are cleaned by staff daily. If a Dinner 1600-1800) patients and parents/visitors at all toy becomes soiled please place it in times when out of bed. the container labeled “dirty toys” for  Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Subway, staff to clean. KFC (M-F 0800-2200, Sat-Sun 1000-1600)  The Dancing Goat Café (Mon-Fri 0600-1400)

 Navy Exchange (Mon-Fri 0700 – 1900, Sat-Sun 1000-1600)