Family-Centered Care Means Moving Beyond Hospital Visitation Policies to Encouraging Active Engagement
American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)Research published in an AACN Advanced Critical Care journal symposium on family-centered care explores the various perceived elements that influence critical care nurses’ inclusion of family caregivers in the care of critically patients. This is one of the first studies, with a national sample of critical care nurses, to report the patient care activities that nurses invite family caregivers to participate in, as well as those they do not.