Involvement of The family in Resuscitation of Their Loved Ones

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Scenario Three: Involvement of The family in Resuscitation of Their Loved Ones
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Introduction
This study is a literature review of previous studies on the approaches that nurses use to
deal with the family of the sick patient during resuscitation. The nursing field has a set of models
and theories that define the way clinical issues needs to be approached and addressed. This study
used findings from the National Centre for Biotechnology Information which is one of the
leading resources for medical and medical research and offers advances in sciences and health on
biomedical and genomic information. Here, several journals are published on different topics
within the subject of healthcare. To search for information on this resource, keywords are
supposed to be used so that the researcher can easily find the intended articles for study. For this
research, the keywords were the family, resuscitation, and the role of the nurse. The articles that
were used in the study were supposed to be only systematic reviews since they offer the best
evidence through summarizing the results of carefully designed healthcare studies to provide an
exhaustive summary of the findings on the particular topic (Silva, Grande, Carvalho,
Martimbianco, & Riera, 2015). In most cases, systematic reviews are based on randomized
control trials which are done through having two groups, the control group and the general group
making it easy to measure the differences between the studies. To allow an easy search of the
articles relevant to this study, a PICO approach will be applied to make the search easy.
P- Resuscitation
I-Presence of loved ones
C- Family members not present
O-Reduced grief, psychological stress
Part 2: Research studies of involvement of the family during resuscitation

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The role of the family when resuscitation process is being done on their loved ones has
been debated with some scholars arguing on the value of their presence while others maintain
that the family should be allowed (Masa’Deh, et al., 2014, p. 72-85). Most studies have
supported the presence of loved as playing an important factor in the life of both the patient and
the family.
Jabre, et al. (2013, p. 1008-1018) did a randomized control trial where patients were
enrolled in two groups for the study. Family presence during CPR was reported as having no
effects on the patient and the medical officers while at the same time it had positive effects on
the patient’s loved ones. This means that witnessing the process of resuscitation is important to
the loved ones since it carries psychological benefits to the family. Since resuscitation is done on
patients in critical conditions, then it is important to allow the family to be present during this
process as a way of reducing the grief that is attached to the death of their loved ones. This study
showed that presence assists the family in overcoming feelings of grief.. This study is also
supported by findings from other studies like Dudley, Hansen, Furnival, Donaldson & Van-
Wagenen (2009, p. 783) who called for the need to have psychological support systems to guide
the the family during this process.
Stefano, et al. (2016, p. 1-10) suggested that the presence of the family plays a major
psychological role in ameliorating the pain of death to support them in the time of death. During
the passage from life to death, the family need to be present so that they can witness the last
moments of their loved ones. Despite the fact that the experience may be traumatizing, this study
reported that the presence of loved ones can relieve the pain of death. Further, Jabre, et al. (2014)
supports the findings of this study by suggesting that the presence of the family plays an
important role in relieving the family from the pain of grief since it ensures that they are able to