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Healthcare Providers' Attitudes Toward Parent Participation in the Care of the Hospitalized Child
Author(s) -
Daneman Susan,
Macaluso Joy,
Guzzetta Cathie E.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal for specialists in pediatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.499
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1744-6155
pISSN - 1539-0136
DOI - 10.1111/j.1088-145x.2003.00090.x
Subject(s) - health care , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , nursing , family centered care , descriptive statistics , medicine , psychology , family medicine , resuscitation , emergency medicine , statistics , mathematics , economics , economic growth
ISSUES AND PURPOSE To examine healthcare providers' attitudes toward parent participation in the care of their hospitalized child. DESIGN AND METHODS In this descriptive, comparative study, 504 pediatric healthcare providers were surveyed to measure attitudes toward parent participation. RESULTS Results from 256 respondents indicated support for parent participation, but there was substantially less support for parental activities usually carried out by healthcare providers and those involving complex patient care tasks. PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS Although pediatric healthcare providers support parent participation, they tend to draw the line on what they believe are suitable parent activities. Newly developed pain standards and cardiopulmonary resuscitation guidelines incorporating parent participation have important implications for expanding the boundaries of parental involvement.