Family-Centered Care in Critical Care, an Issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America: V

In this issue of Critical Care Nursing Clinics, guest editor Danielle Leone-Sheehan brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Family-Centered Care in Critical Care Nursing. A growing body of evidence supports that family-centered care results in shorter hospital stays, reduced complications, reduced anxiety, higher adherence rates, lower health care costs, and reduced nursing burnout. This issue explores the tenets of family-centered care so that the goals of improved patient outcomes, enhanced family satisfaction, reduction of patient and family anxiety, and promotion of continuity of care can be achieved.

• Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including culturally sensitive care in critical care; virtual approaches to family connection in ICU care; family-centered end-of-life care; models of pediatric family-centered care in the ICU; family care and patient outcomes in the ICU; and more
• Provides in-depth clinical reviews on family-centered care in critical care nursing, offering actionable insights for clinical practice
• Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews