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Family‐centred care for children in hospital

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Table 1. Association for the Care of Children's Health: Elements of Family‐Centered Care

Elements of FCC

Evaluative Items

Recognising the family as a constant in the child's life

1. Family as the principle context for the provision of a child's health care

Facilitating parent‐professional collaboration at all levels of health care

2. Promoting and utilizing parent‐professional collaboration and partnerships

Honouring the racial, ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic diversity of families

3. Respect for family diversity

Recognizing family strengths and individuality and respecting different methods of coping

4. Recognising the strengths and capabilities of families

5. Recognising different methods of family coping

Sharing complete and unbiased information with families on a continuous basis

6. Complete sharing of all relevant information with families

Encouraging and facilitating family‐to‐family support and networking

7.Promoting parent‐to‐parent and family‐to‐family support

Responding to child and family developmental needs as part of health care practices

8. Attention to the developmental needs of children and families as part of health care delivery

Adopting policies and practices that provide families with emotional and financial support

9. Recognising and responding to family emotional needs

10. Recognising and responding to family financial needs

Designing health care that is flexible, culturally competent, and responsive to family needs

11. Flexible delivery of health care to children and their families

12. Culturally‐competent delivery of health care

13. Recognising and responding to family‐identified needs

Figures and Tables -
Table 1. Association for the Care of Children's Health: Elements of Family‐Centered Care
Table 2. Family‐Centred Care Clustered Rating Scale

RATING

0

1

2

3

4

Cluster 1: Family as a constant

Family as a constant in child's life

Recognising family strengths

Parent/professional collaboration

Needs‐based family support

Flexible provision of health care

Sharing information with families

Cluster 2: Culturally responsive

Culturally‐competent health care

Respecting family diversity

Providing financial support

Cluster 3: Supporting family individuality

Respecting family coping methods

Providing emotional support

Family‐to‐family support

Attending to the developmental needs of children and families

TOTAL SCORE

Figures and Tables -
Table 2. Family‐Centred Care Clustered Rating Scale