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CRITICAL CARE FAMILY NEEDS
Camelia Sheffield
University of Tennessee at Martin
Abstract
The hospitalization of family members in a critical care setting presents an array of emotions for family members. Critical illness often occurs without warning leaving families feeling vulnerable and helpless with no clear knowledge of what to expect from health care professionals or patient outcomes. The challenge for critical care nurses (Registered Nurses {RNs})
Is to provide care for aggressively managed, critically ill patients while attending the needs of stressed family members
CRITICAL CARE FAMILY NEEDS
Critical care family need of patients in ICU setting may experience fear anger, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder . Nurses and physicians do accurately predict needs of patient’s individualized instruction with proactive assessment in a manner that promotes the inclusion of the patient’s family in bedside care, may help fulfill the needs of patient’s families and optimize family member’s adaptation to critical care needs. In the terms of Sister Calisita Roy a grand theorist critical illness affects the family member’s psychological outcomes of family members in ICU, needs of family; examine methods of assisting families in reflective inquiry and family inclusions. (Davidson, J.)2009.
Review of Literature
The following five journal articles address the needs of families of critical illness. The articles talks about the effects on the patients families and causes a disruption in life of family members
The first article addressed Family –Centered Care addressed by Harvey and Davidson (2011).
Long Term Consequences of Critical Illness, in the past ten years they learned some disconcerting information about the long term consequences that patients in intensive care units and their families suffer. The United States discharge millions of critically ill patients back into the community. Although nurses
Camelia Sheffield
University of Tennessee at Martin
Abstract
The hospitalization of family members in a critical care setting presents an array of emotions for family members. Critical illness often occurs without warning leaving families feeling vulnerable and helpless with no clear knowledge of what to expect from health care professionals or patient outcomes. The challenge for critical care nurses (Registered Nurses {RNs})
Is to provide care for aggressively managed, critically ill patients while attending the needs of stressed family members
CRITICAL CARE FAMILY NEEDS
Critical care family need of patients in ICU setting may experience fear anger, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder . Nurses and physicians do accurately predict needs of patient’s individualized instruction with proactive assessment in a manner that promotes the inclusion of the patient’s family in bedside care, may help fulfill the needs of patient’s families and optimize family member’s adaptation to critical care needs. In the terms of Sister Calisita Roy a grand theorist critical illness affects the family member’s psychological outcomes of family members in ICU, needs of family; examine methods of assisting families in reflective inquiry and family inclusions. (Davidson, J.)2009.
Review of Literature
The following five journal articles address the needs of families of critical illness. The articles talks about the effects on the patients families and causes a disruption in life of family members
The first article addressed Family –Centered Care addressed by Harvey and Davidson (2011).
Long Term Consequences of Critical Illness, in the past ten years they learned some disconcerting information about the long term consequences that patients in intensive care units and their families suffer. The United States discharge millions of critically ill patients back into the community. Although nurses
References: Harvey, M. A., & Davidson , J. (2011). Long-Term Consequences of Critical Illness: A New Opportunity For High – Impact Critical Care Nurses. Davidson, Judy (2009). Family- Centered Care Meeting The Needs of Patients Families and Helping Families Adapt to Critical Illness. Maxwell,K.E&. Stuenkel,D. (2009). Needs of Family Members of Critically Ill Patients : A Comparison of Nurse and Family Perceptions. Buckley , P. & Andrews, T. (2011). Intensive Care Nurses’ Knowledge of Critical Care Family Needs. Agard, A.S. & Maindal, H. T. (2009) . Interacting with relatives in Intensive Care Unit. Nurses perceptions of achallenging task.