Developing and Maintaining Hope in Families of the Critically Ill

Miller, Judith Fitzgerald

doi:10.4037/15597768-1991-2017

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Family Interventions| May 01 1991

Developing and Maintaining Hope in Families of the Critically Ill

Judith Fitzgerald Miller, PhD, RN

*Associate Professor and Research Scholar, Marquette University College of Nursing.

From Marquette University College of Nursing, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Reprint requests to Judith Fitzgerald Miller, PhD, RN, 614 N. 77th St., Wauwatosa, WI 53213.

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AACN Adv Crit Care (1991) 2 (2): 307–315.

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Because of the interdependent, reciprocal dynamics of families and patients, responses of one affect the other. Hope is an important state of being and has been noted to be an example of such a response. Developing and maintaining family members’ hope has a contagious effect on the patient. A model of nursing strategies to inspire hope in families of the critically ill with possible outcomes is presented

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