Scalp IV or Graduation Tassel? Differing Perspectives of the NICU Experience

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-132
Author(s):  
Anne Lord
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
High Stress ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Family Friendly ◽  
Parental Perspectives ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Insight Into

FAMILY-FRIENDLY/FAMILY-CENTERED care in the NICU contributes to positive patient outcomes, strong families, and excellence in care. Successfully integrating the patient’s family into the care team in the high-tech, high-stress NICU environment can pose many challenges to the nursing staff. A significant obstacle to successful family-professional partnerships is lack of understanding by NICU professionals of parental perspectives of the NICU experience. This column provides unique insight into the differing perspectives of one infant’s family and the NICU staff who cared for him.

Family-Centered Care in the Intensive CareUnit—What Does Best Practice Tell Us?

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (05) ◽  
pp. 648-654 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Ludmir ◽  
Giora Netzer
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Psychological Symptoms ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Family Satisfaction ◽  
Family Centered Care ◽  
Icu Length Of Stay ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Support Family

AbstractFamilies in the intensive care unit (ICU) experience high-stress levels and are at risk of developing psychological symptoms including depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Family-centered care defines an approach that encompasses respect, compassion, and support for families. By alleviating stress and anxiety, this approach can increase family satisfaction, improve communication with staff, and decrease ICU length of stay. Family-centered care relies on an interdisciplinary approach. Its components include daily family-centered rounds, frequent family meetings, and ensuring an adequate family support environment. Each of the components of family-centered care depend on adequately trained clinical staff who are champion in empathetic communication and constantly support family member throughout an ICU stay.

Umgang mit Angehörigen auf der Intensivstation

2017 ◽  
Vol 143 (01) ◽  
pp. 15-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Hartog ◽  
Ulf Bodechtel
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Patient Preferences ◽  
Quality Criterion ◽  
Medical Team ◽  
Family Centered Care ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Traditional Roles

AbstractFamily-centered care in the ICU is a quality criterion of modern intensive care. Relatives are not just visitors, caregivers and involved stakeholders, but also partners for the medical team, especially when eliciting patient preferences and during shared decisionmaking. The move towards family-centered care signifies that traditional roles are changing; family-centered care is becoming a critical component of optimizing patient outcomes in the ICU.

“Is Power-sharing Possible?” Using Empowerment Evaluation with Parents and Nurses in a Pediatric Hospital Transplantation Setting

2005 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Strober
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Empowerment Evaluation ◽  
Pediatric Transplantation ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Care Models ◽  
Family Centered ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Practical Level

This article describes the evaluation of an innovative empowerment project aimed at improving nurse-family communication in a pediatric transplantation setting. Empowerment and family-centered care models were employed to reduce barriers to communication and build partnerships. The goals of the project were to facilitate empowerment, power-sharing, and joint decision-making among nurses and families. Families gained insight into biomedical culture, culminating in the creation of a handbook for navigating biomedical culture, which they site as empowering. However, major barriers exist to achieving the remaining goals. Although nurses involved with the project value the principles of joint decision-making and power-sharing abstractly, they are reluctant to incorporate them into their practice. They describe them as at odds with tasks and roles they must accomplish. Foucault’s insights on clinical power assist in understanding why this project was successful in creating partnerships in some areas, but not accomplishing power-sharing at a structural and practical level.

scholarly journals Nurses' Perception of Family-Centered Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

2019 ◽  
Vol 09 (01) ◽  
pp. 016-020
Author(s):  
Haydeh Heidari ◽  
Marjan Mardani-Hamooleh
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care ◽  
Neonatal Intensive Care Units ◽  
Family Centered Care ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
Conventional Content Analysis ◽  
Family Centered

AbstractFamily-centered care (FCC) is one of the important elements of care in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The aim of this study was to understand the nurses' perception of FCC in NICUs. This qualitative study was performed using conventional content analysis. Participants in this study included 18 nurses who were selected by a purposeful method. Semistructured, in-depth and face-to-face interviews were conducted with the participants. All interviews were written down, reviewed, and analyzed. Two categories were identified after the data analysis: (1) prerequisite for providing FCC and (2) parents' participation. Prerequisite for providing FCC consisted of two subcategories namely suitable facilities and adequate personnel. Parents' participation included subcategories of parents: neonate's attachment and parents' training. Nurses' perception of FCC in NICUs can facilitate an appropriate condition for the participation of family members in the care of neonates.

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