Positive Impact of Patient and Family Centred Care on Child Care Nursing

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Introduction:
Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC) is a healthcare approach to plan and
provide a better healthcare service focusing on the benefit of all the stakeholders including
the health care workers, patients and their families. It rebuilds a better relationship between
the care providers and the other participants in a healthcare service within every age group
and every healthcare centre. In a patient and family-centred care, the patients and the family
members define themselves as one and participates in the decision making and treatment
process for the patient (Sharp, 2018). P&FCC acts according to the recognition of the need
and requirements of a patient ant the family to ensure safe and quality care. The aim of the
approach is to provide better health and wellbeing to individuals and their families
(Barnsteiner, 2016). The assignment will focus on the positive role and important factors of
Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC) influencing the child care nursing facility and its
outcome on the children and their families.
Compare and contrast one positive impact of P&FCC on the child and family, with
features of traditional models of paediatric care.
The Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC) is based on four principles which includes;
 Respect and Dignity- the principle states that the patients and their families should be
treated with dignity and respect in a healthcare service.
 Information Sharing- the principle guides the healthcare providers to share detailed
information to the patient and the family regarding the condition, treatment and
outcomes (Clay & Parsh, 2016).
 Participation-it ensures that the patient and the families are involved in the whole
treatment and decision making process.

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 Collaboration-it guides the nurse towards the equal delivery of care to every one
including patient, family and other healthcare facilities (Mitchell et al., 2016).
The practice of Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC) in paediatrics is very essential in
medical service in various ways, such as permitting the presence of the parent and families in
the care process of the child (Walton, 2016). It is important that the parents and the families
should be involved in the whole process of care giving to the child despite of the fact that
whether they are able to be physically present. Parents play a major role in the child care
services and Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC) ensures their involvement in the
treatment process and care giving. The mental, physical and social condition of parents and
the families are directly linked with the health and wellbeing of their child (Lloyd, Elkins &
Innes, 2018). The positive part about Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC) is that it
ensures total collaborative process of healthcare giving in a family centre care by building a
trust worthy, clear and better communication relationship between the professionals, nurses
and the families of the child (Singh et al., 2018). The approach enables cooperation of the
roles played by each stakeholders, recognizing the individuality and the diversity of children
and their families. The patient and family centred primary care is applied to reduce the
emergency conditions for a patient. It is observed that involving families during treatment
procedures reduces anxiety occurrence in child and the parents. It has been observed that
presence of mother during treatment of child helps the process to go with ease and the child
tends to recover better and fast than others (Dudley et al., 205).
Children are very delicate to handle and can be tough to manage in situations against their
will, it is essential that their parents and families are present so that they feel secure and
comfortable and doesn’t create hurdles in treatment process. The Patient and Family Centred
Care (P&FCC) in paediatrics helps the families and the nurse to collaborate and take better
treatment decisions for the child (Ramelet, 2016).

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Two concepts of P&FCC are enabling and empowerment. Explain how these concepts
are applied in paediatric nursing care in the hospital or primary health care setting.
It is found that most of the nurses are aware of the Patient and Family Centred Care
(P&FCC). Patient empowerment is the upgraded capability provided to ensure that the family
and parents take decisions for the child. Proper information is the straight route to patient
empowerment. It is difficult for one to take healthcare decision regarding their child without
having proper information regarding the health condition, medications, treatments and the
outcomes which can be either negative or positive (Rao, Thomas & Narayan, 2018). The
process of sharing information is a way for patient communication with the nurses and the
health care system which improves the care service of children and their families. It is found
that perceptions and attitudes of the healthcare professionals can outline the effectiveness of
the patient and family centred care. To organize the principles successfully, the paediatric
nurses must involve in the child and the parents in every aspect of the health care process to
ensure empowerment of families and patient (Jakimowicz & Perry, 2015). To facilitate the
empowerment and enabling concept of Patient and Family Centred Care (P&FCC), nurses
needs to involve and guide the patient and their family members in caring, and making
decisions for the child.
Enabling is the process of providing chances for the family and the patient to show their
current abilities, interests and problems in learning and acquiring new things and habits. To
accomplish the concept, the nurse needs to first recognize the strengths and weaknesses of the
child and the family and help the family to focus on the strengths and retain their weaknesses.
It is a process of encouraging the parent about the fact that they are the one who knows what
is good and bad for their child, and encouraging them to take decisions accordingly to make
sure that it brings a better outcome for their child and help him recover from the health