Family Presence on Multidisciplinary Patient Care Rounds in ICU

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Conditions studied: Critical Illness

In brief

Family presence on patient care rounds in adult intensive care units remains the least studied area of family-centered care. Despite support from professional organizations and critical care experts, very few critical care units in the United States have written policies allowing family presence (Davidson, 2013). This multidisciplinary prospective, quasi-experimental design study examined if there is a difference in patient and family satisfaction between rounding in the presence of family compared to patient rounding without family members in the adult intensive care unit and determined the nurses' and health care professionals' attitudes toward family presence during multidisciplinary patient care rounds in the ICU of two hospitals. The sample was 150 patients and family members (75 per hospital) and a convenience sampling of 90 healthcare professionals from the two sites. This investigation will have a potential impact on nursing practice and research. Findings obtained from this study may provide further concrete information on the effect of family presence during multidisciplinary patient care rounds, and patient and family satisfaction that will develop policies and standardized approaches to rounding processes that are innovative in diverse critical care settings as well as other non-critical care settings. Data obtained from this research will be used to create patient and family-centered care plans, add new knowledge and educational programs for healthcare professionals

Key facts

Study ID

NCT05449990

Run by

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

People needed

390

Starts

2021-07-26

Expected to finish

2022-07-30

Last updated by the study team

2023-11-07

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 85. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients admitted to the adult ICU over the age of 20 who are awake and alert with a score of above 25 on the Mini-Mental Status (MMS) examination, able to provide informed consent, fill out the questionnaires and who has a family member or significant other who will be willing to participate in the study.
• Family members who are in the patient's primary support system and or caregiver, significant other, or those whom the patient considered or identified as the family who are over the age of 20, able to provide informed consent and will be willing to attend the multidisciplinary rounds while their patient is in the ICU and fill-out the questionnaires.
• All ICU nurses and other health care professionals such as the physicians, respiratory therapists, social workers, and dietitians over the age of 25, male and female nurses, working full time in the ICUs, and willing to provide informed consent will be surveyed.

You may not qualify if…

• Any patient with an MMS score below 25 will not be included in the study.
• Patients who are admitted in cardiogenic shock or who are hemodynamically unstable, who are 'intubated' and on mechanical ventilation will be excluded from the study, and with an MMS score of below 20 will be excluded in the study.
• Family members and nurses who are unwilling or will refuse to participate in multidisciplinary rounds will be excluded.

Where it is running

• Inspira Health Network — Mullica Hill, New Jersey, United States

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