Family Involvement in PICU Rounds: Reality or Rhetoric?

Moving from rhetoric to reality: patient and family involvement in bedside handover.

Impact of family presence during pediatric intensive care unit rounds on the family and medical team.

OBJECTIVES Our objectives were to determine the impact of family presence during PICU rounds on family satisfaction, resident teaching, and length of rounds and to assess factors associated with family satisfaction. METHODS This was an observational study of a convenience sample of morning work rounds in a PICU, followed by surveys of family members of patients in the unit and residents who h...

Rhetoric and Reality in the English National Health Service; Comment on “Who Killed the English National Health Service?”

Despite fiscal stress, public confidence in the National Health Service (NHS) remains strong; privatisation has not hollowed out the service. But if long term challenges are to be overcome, pragmatism not rhetoric should be the guide.

Pediatric Intensive Care Unit rounding improvements

Medical rounds in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) took about four hours each day to complete. The length of rounds was affecting the advancement of care of the patients, the engagement of sub-specialty providers who needed to be present on other rounds, and the engagement of the PICU faculty and staff due to overburdening waste created by the long duration of rounds. Specific intervent...

The Effectiveness of Reality Therapy on the Improvement of Couples’ Family Functioning

Background & Aims of the Study: Disorder or disturbance in family functioning is a serious threatens for family member’s mental health and community health. Current study intended to examine the reality therapy on the improvement of couple's family functioning. Materials and methods: The design of the study is as quasi-experiment research (pre-test and post-test with follow up and control g...