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Family centred care in the paediatric high dependency unit: Parents' and Staff's perceptions

Mandie Foster1, Lisa Whitehead1,2

  • 1a School of Nursing and Midwifery , Edith Cowan University , 270 Joondalup Drive, Building 21, Joondalup , WA 6027 , Australia.

Contemporary Nurse
|November 28, 2017
PubMed

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Parents and staff in a paediatric high dependency unit share similar views on family centred care (FCC), but differ on its primary focus. Understanding these perceptions is key to effective healthcare partnerships.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric healthcare
  • Nursing and allied health
  • Family-centered care models

Background:

  • Family-centered care (FCC) is a partnership approach aligning child treatment with family needs.
  • Despite FCC endorsement, discrepancies in its application between parents and staff persist.
  • Understanding these variations is crucial for optimizing pediatric healthcare delivery.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore parent and staff perceptions of family-centred care (FCC).
  • To investigate FCC implementation within a New Zealand paediatric high dependency unit.
  • To identify similarities and differences in how parents and staff conceptualize FCC.

Main Methods:

  • Descriptive qualitative cross-sectional study.
  • Convenience sampling of 91 parents and 66 healthcare staff.
  • Analysis of written responses to an open-ended question regarding FCC.

Main Results:

  • Parental responses yielded three themes: family, treatment, and relationships.
  • Staff responses identified two themes: family and treatment.
  • Both groups shared commonalities in defining FCC but diverged on its central emphasis.

Conclusions:

  • Similarities exist in parent and staff understanding of FCC's meaning.
  • Divergent views on the central focus of FCC were identified between parents and staff.
  • Addressing these differing perspectives can enhance FCC implementation in pediatric settings.
Abstract

Keywords:
New Zealandchilddelivery of health carefamily relationsparentsperceptions

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