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Family-Centered Critical Care: How one unit implemented a plan

Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2008 - 00:04.

Authors:

Damboise, Cindy; Cardin, Suzette

Source:

American Journal of Nursing, Volume 103, Issue 6, p.56AA-56EE (2003)

Accession Number:

00000446-200306000-00045

URL:

http://www.ajnonline.com/pt/re/ajn/toc.00000446-200306000-00000.htm

Keywords:

icu

Abstract:

This article describes the process by which the critical care unit at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center (PHCMC) in Mission Hills, California, implemented a family-centered care program. Begun in 2000 as a pilot program in a 24-bed combined ICU, CCU, ED, and telemetry unit, family-centered care became the model of patient care in all nursing units (medical–surgical, maternal– child) and all departments (respiratory, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and admitting) by 2001.