Effect of Patient's Family Engagement in Nursing Care on Nurses' Perception and Patients' Clinical Outcome at Neurological Intensive Care Unit | ||||
| Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal | ||||
| Volume 37, Issue 2, May 2025 PDF (866.77 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/tsnj.2025.435926 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Eslam Ebrahim Abd-El Hak Saied1; Safaa Eid Said Ahmed2; El Sayed Ali Mohamed Tag Eldin3; Sheren Mohammd Abed El Latief Gad4 | ||||
| 1Assistant lecturer at Critical care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||||
| 2Professor of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||||
| 3Professor of Neuropsychiatry Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Egypt | ||||
| 4Assistant Professor of Critical Care and Emergency Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Tanta University, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Background: Family engagement means active partnerships between health care providers' families. Family engagement in ICU takes different forms depending on the needs of critically ill patients. IT can improve patients' clinical outcomes. Aim: Evaluate effect of patient's family engagement in nursing care on nurse's perception and patients' clinical outcome at Neurological Intensive Care Unit. Subjects and Method: Design: A quasi-experimental study was used at the Neurological Intensive Care Unit of Tanta University Hospital. Subjects: A convenience sample of all nurses working in previously setting and 60 adult critically ill patients in ICU. Tools: Three tools were developed by the researcher as follow. Tool (I): Patient's socio-demographic characteristics, and patients' clinical data. Tool (II): Nurses perception about family engagement. Tool (III): Clinical Outcome Measurement of Critically Ill Patient. Results: The family engagement protocol show an improvement in clinical patient condition which in study group there were significant differences regarding level of consciousness، physiological parameters monitoring and Richmond Agitation- Sedation Scale (RASS) with p level=0.012 respectively. The most of critical care nurses (72.5%) have high level of knowledge after family engagement protocol implementation. Conclusions: Application of protocol of family engagement had significance effectiveness on improvement of clinical outcome among critically ill patients. The nurses made an encouraging and positive outlook on the involvement of family. Recommendations: Create polices, protocols, and procedure for family engagement in ICUs, assessment tool to assess family readiness to be actively contributing to their patients' care and the aspects of care they can be engaged in should be available. | ||||
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