Recent studies on the attitudes of healthcare providers toward the presence of patients’ family members during cardiopulmonary resuscitations and invasive procedures (family presence) have focused on retrospective or cross-sectional surveys of staff. The research reveals that clinicians’ opinions about the value of this practice are mixed. Although guidelines have been suggested for the implementation of family presence, few reports have been published that describe actual programs or effective strategies for changing practice. As staff members who advocated initiation of a family presence program in our own emergency department, we were interested in evaluating the attitudes of staff members before the family presence program was started and after it had been established. We also wanted to see if attitudes differed between nurses and physicians. In this article, we report our experience with the implementation of a family presence program in...
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February 01 2007
Impact of a Multifaceted Intervention on Nurses’ and Physicians’ Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Family Presence During Resuscitation
Patricia Mian, RN, MSN, APN-BC
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Patricia Mian, RN, MSN, APN-BC
Patricia Mian is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, Susan Warchal and Susan Whitney are staff nurses, and David Tancredi is an attending physician in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Joan Fitzmaurice is director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Susan Warchal, RN
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Susan Warchal, RN
Patricia Mian is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, Susan Warchal and Susan Whitney are staff nurses, and David Tancredi is an attending physician in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Joan Fitzmaurice is director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Susan Whitney, RN, BS
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Susan Whitney, RN, BS
Patricia Mian is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, Susan Warchal and Susan Whitney are staff nurses, and David Tancredi is an attending physician in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Joan Fitzmaurice is director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Joan Fitzmaurice, RN, PhD
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Joan Fitzmaurice, RN, PhD
Patricia Mian is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, Susan Warchal and Susan Whitney are staff nurses, and David Tancredi is an attending physician in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Joan Fitzmaurice is director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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David Tancredi, MD
David Tancredi, MD
Patricia Mian is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist, Susan Warchal and Susan Whitney are staff nurses, and David Tancredi is an attending physician in the emergency department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass. Joan Fitzmaurice is director of the Office of Quality and Patient Safety at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Crit Care Nurse (2007) 27 (1): 52–61.
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Patricia Mian, Susan Warchal, Susan Whitney, Joan Fitzmaurice, David Tancredi; Impact of a Multifaceted Intervention on Nurses’ and Physicians’ Attitudes and Behaviors Toward Family Presence During Resuscitation. Crit Care Nurse 1 February 2007; 27 (1): 52–61. doi: https://doi.org/10.4037/ccn2007.27.1.52
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