Commentary on Shields L (2010) Questioning family-centred care. Journal of Clinical Nursing 19, 2629-2638.

摘要

Socially constructed in its evolution and stemming from the need to recognise the psychosocial needs of hospitalised children, family-centred care (FCC) as a pioneering ideology has developed and advanced not without its challenges, as Shields outlines in her discursive paper 'questioning family-centred care'. However, as Shields highlights, there is limited empirically derived knowledge on the effectiveness of FCC for hospitalised children. One attribution to the difficulty of effective evaluation of FCC, in terms of improved outcomes for families, and more substantially for the child patient him or herself could be its ill-defined nature (Corlett & Twycross 2006).