Elements of family centered care – This book covers the entire syllabus of “Neuron Community Health Nursing” prescribed by the Universities of Bangladesh- for Basic and diploma nursing students. We tried to accommodate latest information and topics.
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Elements of family centered care
The key elements of family centered care:
1. Incorporating in to policy and practice the recognition that the family is the constant in a people’s life where as the service systems and support personnel fluctuate.
2. Facilitating family / professional collaboration at all levels of hospital, home, and community care. Care of an individual child, program development, implementation, and evaluation and policy formation.
3. Exchanging complete and unbiased information between families and professionals in a supportive manner at all times.
4. Incorporating in to policy and practice the recognition and honoring of cultural diversity, strengths, and individually within and across all families, including ethnic, racial, spiritual, social, economic, educational, and geographic diversity.
5. Recognizing and respecting different methods of family coping and comprehensive. policies and provide developmental, emotional, environmental and financial supports to meet the diverse needs of families.
6. Encouraging and facilitating family- to- family support and networking.
7. Ensuring that hospital, home, and community services and support systems for children needing specialized health and developmental care and their families are flexible, accessible, and comprehensive in responding to diverse family identified needs.
8. Appreciating families as families and children as children, recognizing that they possess a wide range of strengths concerns, emotions, and aspirations beyond their need for specialized health and developmental services and support.
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The nine elements of family-centered care include:
1. Recognizing the family as a constant in the child’s life.
2. Facilitating parent-professional collaboration at all levels of health care. 3. Honoring the racial, ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic diversity of families.
4. Recognizing family strengths and individuality and respecting different methods of coping.
5. Sharing complete and unbiased information with families on a continuous basis.
6. Encouraging and facilitating family-to-family support and networking.
7. Responding to child and family developmental needs as part of healthcare practices.
8. Adopting policies and practices that provide families with emotional and financial support and
9. Designing health care that is flexible, culturally competent, and responsive to family needs.
The core concepts of Patient Family Centered Care are:
1. Dignity and Respect – To listen to and honor patient and family ideas and choices and to use patient and family knowledge, values, beliefs and cultural backgrounds to improve care planning and delivery.
2. Information Sharing – To communicate and share complete and unbiased information with patients and families in useful ways. Patients and families receive timely, complete and accurate details so they can take part in care and decision making.
3. Involvement – To encourage and support patients and families in care and decision making at the level they choose.
4. Collaboration – To invite patients and family members to work together with health care
staff to develop and evaluate policies and programs.
Benefits of Patient- and Family-Centered Care:
Given the documented benefits, pediatricians who practice patient- and family-centered care may experience the following benefits:
1. A stronger alliance with the family in promoting each child’s health and development.
2. Improved clinical decision-making based on better information and collaborative processes.
3. Improved follow-through when the plan of care is developed collaboratively with families.
4. Greater understanding of the family’s strengths and care giving capacities.
5. More efficient and effective use of professional time, including the use of patient- and family-centered rounds.
6. More efficient use of health care resources (e.g. more care managed at home, decrease in unnecessary hospitalizations and emergency department visits, more effective use of preventive care).
7. Improved communication among members of the health care team..
8. A more competitive position in the health care marketplace.
9. An enhanced learning environment for future pediatricians and other professionals in training.
10. A practice environment that enhances professional satisfaction in both inpatient and outpatient practice.
11. Greater child and family satisfaction with their health care.
12. Improved patient safety from collaboration with informed and engaged patients and families.
13. An opportunity to learn from families how care systems really work and not just how
they are intended to work.
14. A possible decrease in the number of legal claims, claim severity, and legal expenses.
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