Family-Centered Care

Family-Centered Care

            Family-centered care refers to a partnership approach to healthcare provision, where the healthcare provider and the family make the decisions. The approach is defined as a standard of pediatric healthy but has insufficient implementation into clinical practice. If supported better, the approach can be translated into improved healthcare delivery and transformation of the healthcare system. The successful adoption of family-centered care is hindered by challenges such as lack of clear directives about the role it plays in healthcare. Integrating the approach to healthcare and giving clear definitions will help improve its understandability and enhanced effectiveness.

Nurses in family-centered care are expected to treat patients with dignity and respect. The patients receiving the services are expected to be sensitive towards the needs of patients while ensuring that their needs are catered for. Patients in such scenarios are expected to be part of fully dependent on the nurses in the completion of daily activities such as showering, dressing up, and other activities. The nurses offering their services to sustain such care efforts should receive adequate compensation for their services and have considerations for off days to relax and regain their energy (Park et al., 2018). The nurses are also expected to collaborate with families to work alongside facilities for providing healthcare to ensure that the outcomes provided re effective and aid in the delivery of care

The other obligation that the nurses are expected to accomplish is to share information promptly with families and patients, which helps in ongoing care and decision making. Nurses are expected to be active participants to support families and patients during the different processes and events that they are likely to encounter (Davidson et al., 2017). The nurses in family-centered care are expected to provide timely updates to the families of a patient to help in readiness preparedness to face future health outcomes of a patient.

References

Davidson, J. E., Aslakson, R. A., Long, A. C., Puntillo, K. A., Kross, E. K., Hart, J., … & Netzer, G. (2017). Guidelines for family-centered care in the neonatal, pediatric, and adult ICU. Critical care medicine, 45(1), 103-128.

Park, M., Lee, M., Jeong, H., Jeong, M., & Go, Y. (2018). Patient-and family-centered care interventions for improving the quality of health care: a review of systematic reviews. International journal of nursing studies, 87, 69-83.