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Family-Centered Care Interventions to Minimize Family Intensive Care Unit Syndrome and Post-intensive Care Syndrome-Family

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The purpose of this chapter is to outline family-centered care interventions to be deployed within the intensive care unit stay to optimize family health as recommended within guidelines published by the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and endorsed by nine professional agencies worldwide. Facilitated Sensemaking, a midrange theory recommended by the SCCM as one framework from which to apply principles of family-centered care, will be presented. Special situations such as provision of family care that is gender-sensitive, specific to the needs of infants and children, and needs of non-English-speaking families will be addressed. Needs of the unbefriended patient will also be explored. Case studies and personal testimony will be presented to translate abstract concepts into perspective, further emphasizing the importance of strategically deploying family interventions. Methods to optimize clinician resiliency to increase capacity for family-centered care are described.

Note: Standardized to use of term clinician, nurse used only when the intervention is specific to nursing. Facilitated Sensemaking (capitalized) is used in the sentence to reflect the name of the theoretical model. It is spelled in lower case when reflecting the process.

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Davidson, J.E. et al. (2018). Family-Centered Care Interventions to Minimize Family Intensive Care Unit Syndrome and Post-intensive Care Syndrome-Family. In: Netzer, G. (eds) Families in the Intensive Care Unit. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94337-4_15

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