Explain why the patient has been placed on Airborne Precautions. Encourage the visitors to express their feelings and questions about the isolation procedures.
	Visitors should be questioned before they enter the rooms of patients with chickenpox/herpes zoster, or measles regarding their history of immunity to the patient's specific diagnosis.

If the visitors are susceptible, they cannot enter the isolation room.

Report any instances where patients or their visitors are noncompliant with isolation precautions and other infection control measures for investigation and followup to:

	Hospital Epidemiology (8-4634)
	Office of Risk Management/Medicolegal Affairs (8-2290)

Instruct visitors in the proper use of a N-95 respirator (if the patient is on Airborne Precautions for tuberculosis) and in the need for handwashing. In addition, visitors should be shown how to use other required barrier protection techniques.

A child may be permitted to visit the patient if the child:

	Is not at risk to contract the disease (i.e., is immune to the disease).
	Is not ill or has not been recently exposed to a communicable disease (e.g. influenza).
	Is able to understand and comply with isolation procedures.