Health institutions have different reactions when it comes to the role of the parents in caring for their infants. Others exclude parents by not letting them participate in rounds, by just allowing them to be with their children twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Most centers have rewritten guidelines to be able to set extended family members apart from the immediate ones (Moore, et al. , 2003).
Appointing family members as advisors of key committees of health institutions is a vital step in the adoption of a family-centered health care system. Their importance in the different committees of the health institutions could provide family-to-family support within. At the same time, they would be given the chance to serve one another, being part of the different committees. Likewise, families would serve as faculty and trainers in the other activities that would concern the members of their families who are patients (Moore, et al. , 2003).
The research design used by the said article is limited to qualitative research, using a very familiar qualitative approach, phenomenological, examining the meaning of what is done to reach the conclusion, looking into the words and phrases instead of a numerical value. It was able to look into the different reactions and steps health institutions took in adopting a family-centered care. Health institutions have different reactions when it comes to the role of the parents in caring for their infants.
Others exclude parents by not letting them participate in rounds, by just allowing them to be with their children twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Most centers have rewritten guidelines to be able to set extended family members apart from the immediate ones (Moore, et al. , 2003). In order to give the family members more participation in caring for their children, a policy concerning family-centered rounds should be adopted by health care institutions such as hospitals (Moore, et al. , 2003). Research says that parents are interested in knowing what is going on and have a voice in their children’s care.
Thus, family rounds should be adopted. According to John Romano, in Patients’ Attitudes and behavior in Ward Teaching in 1941, the presence of nurses for families is reassuring yet at the same time; they would like to take part in the discussion. Parents would of course want to know what the plans for their children are. Through this, they could be able to tell their child’s concerns to everyone on the medical team without repeating them for a number of times. Simultaneously, the medical team could ask the parents questions about their children.
In addition, parents would be given a greater chance to ask questions regarding their children, and get the answers to them as soon as possible. Likewise, parents could support their children when they have to, in times when their children gets afraid of what is happening. Through this, discharge may be sooner than expected (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2007). Unfortunately, however, family rounds are not always perfect as it also has barriers for parents and other family members. First, health care workers might negatively intimidate the patients and their families.
Second, the family might not be able to speak the same language that the health care professionals are speaking. Third, families might not be able to understand medical terms that doctors and nurses use. Fourth, a delay may occur after the plan is made and even before the orders are issued. Fifth, the children may not want or need to hear whatever the doctors may say. Lastly, rounds may occur at a not so good time for the parents who might be sleeping or attending to other important matters (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 2007)..