The Comparison of Nurses and Families’ Viewpoint of Family‑centered Caring in Khalkhal Hospital, 2017

Introduction: The health is a family‑ and patient‑pivoted system. Families are the elemental source of caring that provides the financial, emotional support, and hygienic services for their patient’s relatives and the nurses as a basic individual in the curing team which remedying their patient interfere directly. The present study is with the aim of the comparison of nurses and families’ viewpoint toward family‑based caring. Methods: The present study is conducted a descriptive‑analytic study that was carried out in 2015 on the nurses, and the main companion of the admitted patients occupied nurses in Khalkhal Emam Khomeini Hospital whit sampling method. The utilized instruments were the researcher‑made questionnaire. After gathering data, they were analyzed by the SPSS 18 version. Results: The mean and the standard deviation grade of the nurses and the companions’ viewpoint of family‑pivoted caring are 46.04 ± 7.59 and 38.63 ± 8.86, respectively. In addition, the comparison of the grade of nurses and companions’ viewpoint indicates that there is a significant statistical difference between two groups (P = 0.001). Conclusion: The viewpoint of the studied nurses and families toward the family‑centered caring are about in the average and weak level. By considering to the increasing tendency of curative services from the curer‑pivoted approach toward the family‑pivoted services sound that the reinforcement of the attitude and the viewpoint as two main axis of caring, family‑pivoted caring, companion, nurses, and family.

The Comparison of Nurses and Families’ Viewpoint of Family‑centered Caring in Khalkhal Hospital, 2017 Keywords:

Families , family‑centered , nurses