FAMILY-CENTERED CARE IN THE ADULT

INTENSIVE CARE UNIT: A CONCEPT ANALYSIS.

M O H A M E D E L H A K I M , M . D .

Disclosure

I have NO actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this activity.

I do not have any relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.

History of Family-Centered Care

Developed after World War II

Changing social expectations for the care delivery

Originate from US and UK

Research “right time - right place” Social readiness for change

Background

“Family” means any person(s) who plays a significant role in an individual’s life.

During a critical illness, families fulfill an additional essential role for patients (Granberg, Engberg & Lundberg, 1999).

Family is an acknowledged and accepted essential component of the patient in Adult critical care units.

Critical Care and intensive care nurses report a hesitancy to add to the complexity of their work by including family members (Price, 2004)

Background

Family-centered care is a framework for the delivery of healthcare that is creating change in healthcare policies, programs, facility design, day-to-day practices of individual practitioners, and professional education. 

Role of the Family

Communication with family members in the ICU setting is complex, and high-quality communication requires training and collaboration of a well-functioning team. This communication also requires a balance between adhering to processes of care that are associated with improved outcomes and individualizing communication to the unique needs of the family.

Role of the Family

Because most critically ill patients lack decision-making capacity, physicians often ask family members to act as surrogates for the patient in discussions about the goals of care. Therefore, clinician-family communication is a central component of medical decision making in the ICU, 

History Family-Centered Care

Patient-Centered Care versus Family-Centered Care

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?

Role of Care partners versus family member

While specific methods of implementing family-centered care differ from facility to facility, general procedures are fairly similar. The University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville, Virginia, provides an excellent example of this. On admission, the patient usually has one or two people who will serve as their primary "care partners." These individuals are notated in the patient's electronic and physical medical charts, and they are given an orange wristband to wear in order to designate them as a patient's "care partners." This negates the need for visitor's passes or after-hours registration cards, as the staff can readily identify a patient's "care partners." The admitting staff discuss the reasons for admission with the patient and their "care partners" and what health criteria are required for the patient's discharge.

Role of the Care Partner

"Care partners" are then involved with the patient's care by their entire attending healthcare team, including physicians, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and more. At every stage, "care partners" and patients discuss with healthcare professionals test results, the state of the patient's current health, what type of things to expect throughout the day, and discharge goals.

Role of the Care Partner

"Care partners" are invited to take part in nursing interventions, including bathing, feeding, helping the nursing staff with moving the patient, and assisting the patient in exercising or moving about the unit..

"Care partners" are also invited to take an active role in "rounds," providing feedback and asking questions reflective of theirs and the patient's wishes or concerns

"Care partners" are also ifluenced on various elements of hospital operating policy, such as quiet time and visitation rules. The "care partners" are then generally allowed to manage the adherence to these policies in a manner conducive to the patient's healing and common sense—for example, by managing how many visitors are present in the patient's room.

The concept

The concept of family- centered care in Adult intensive care unit has changed drastically in protracted years and has been used in various contexts differently. Since we require clarity in our understanding, we aimed to analyze this concept

Research Question

What are the changes of family centered care literature from 1980 to 2013.

METHODS:

This study was done on the basis of developmental approach of Rodgers's concept analysis. We reviewed the existing literature in Science direct, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases from 1980 to 2013. The keywords were family-centered care, family-oriented care, and adult intensive care unit. After all, 59 out of 245 English and Arabic articles and books (more than 20%) were selected.

RESULTS:

The attributes of family-centered care in adult intensive care unit were recognized as care taking of family (assessment of family and its needs, providing family needs), equal family participation (participation in care planning, decision making, and providing care from routine to special ones),

RESULTS:

It is recognized also as collaboration (inter-professional collaboration with family, family involvement in regulating and implementing care plans), regarding family's respect and dignity (importance of families' differences, recognizing families' tendencies), and knowledge transformation (information sharing between healthcare workers and family,

RESULTS:

The attributes of family-centered care in adult intensive care unit were recognized also as complete information sharing according to family learning style). Besides, the recognized antecedents were professional and management-organizational factors. Finally, the consequences included benefits related to adulthood, family, and organization.

RESULTS:

family-centered care was NOT an essential component of A developmental care framework for an intensive care unit from late 1980 to 1999,

Results

This result affected the outcome of adult intensive care unit mainly in the form of patient's satisfactions, it also has profound effects on the experiences and long-term mental health of family members. 

Results

literature from 2001 shows the answer of if family centered care as an essential component of adult intensive care unit

It then started to influence and improve the outcome of adult intensive care,

Results

Discussions between ICU clinicians and family members about goals of care and medical decision making often take place during ICU family conferences. Conduct of these conferences within 72 hours of ICU admission has been associated with reduced days in the ICU for patients.

Results

One of the findings have been introduced in family centered care in 2005, was combined into a mnemonic for five features to enhance clinician-family communication: VALUE (value, acknowledge, listen, understand, and elicit) . This mnemonic has been used as part of an intervention to improve clinician-family communication in the ICU that has been shown to significantly reduce family symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder 3 months after the patient's death.

From 2005 to 2013 several research methodology shows an effective reduced ICU length of stay with effective family – physician communication and knowledge sharing, this affects different factors like cost, effort and quality of care to a larger extent,

CONCLUSION:

The findings revealed that family centered-care was a comprehensive and holistic caring approach in adult intensive care. Therefore, it is highly recommended to change the current care approach and philosophy and provide facilities for conducting family-centered care in adult intensive care unit

Future Aim

To run the same Family-centered care study in Pediatrics and neonatal intensive care unit and to run a prospective study on the same concept.

Disclosure

I have NO actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this activity.

I do not have any relevant financial relationships with any commercial interests.

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