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Implementing Family Centered Care Practice Int

The purpose of this research report is to identify family centered care practice and principles with special emphasis upon nursing interventions in the surgical/perioperative care setting in a large urban medical/surgical unit. According to Wright and Leahey (2000), a significant part of nursing history is that the involvement of families has always been integrally to nursing practice, but in recent years nursing has begun to focus upon identifying via empirically grounded research, the basic systems that should be used in caring for entire families in a holistic manner. In any clinical practice setting, it is useful for nurses to work from a carefully delineated conceptual framework. As Wright and Leahey (2000) have pointed out, this encourages nurses to synthesize data so that family strengths and problems can be identified and a useful family plan developed.

The clientele served in this analysis consists of families in which one member, a child or adolescent, has been referred for some type of surgical intervention. The general priorities of nurses in this particular environment include a strong focus on patient education, relieving anxiety, increasing self-esteem by increasing self-efficacy, speeding recovery, reducing costs, and developing interventions that enhance the comfort of the patient and reduce tensions experienced by the family (Fox, 1998). These interventions are delivered at the pre-operative as well as the post-operative stages during which both the primary patient and the family constellation have needs that can be effectively served by targeted nursing interventions.

The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) as described by Wright and Leahey (2000) consists of a model that moves from a thorough assessment of the needs of the presenting patient and the patient's family members or support system to the development of appropriate nursing care and interventions, including educational efforts designed to ...

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