Family-Centered Care Flashcards
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A nurse is conducting a developmental care assessment for a 32-week neonate. Which family-centered intervention MOST supports neurodevelopmental outcomes?
Answer: Teaching parents to recognize infant stress cues and respond with comforting measures
Teaching parents to read and respond to their infant's behavioral cues supports neurodevelopment and strengthens the parent-infant relationship through contingent caregiving.
When evaluating outcomes of a family-centered care program in the NICU, which metric is MOST relevant?
Answer: Improvement in parental satisfaction scores and parental confidence at discharge
Parental satisfaction and confidence at discharge are direct outcome measures of family-centered care program effectiveness.
A grandmother who is the primary caregiver for a NICU infant asks to be included in care teaching. According to family-centered care principles, the nurse should:
Answer: Include the grandmother if the parents consent, tailoring teaching to all identified caregivers
Family-centered care recognizes diverse family structures and includes all identified primary caregivers in education with appropriate consent.
A NICU nurse facilitates a peer support visit between a current NICU family and a parent who previously had an infant in the NICU. The PRIMARY benefit of this intervention is to:
Answer: Provide experiential support and hope from someone who has lived the NICU experience
Peer support from NICU graduate parents provides experiential empathy, hope, and practical coping strategies that are uniquely powerful compared to professional support alone.
A nurse is advocating for a family who feels their cultural practices around newborn care are being dismissed by the medical team. The MOST appropriate nursing action is to:
Answer: Present the family's cultural needs at a care conference and identify safe ways to incorporate practices
Cultural advocacy involves presenting family needs to the care team and collaboratively identifying ways to honor cultural practices safely within the clinical environment.
Which of the following NICU staff behaviors is MOST likely to undermine family-centered care?
Answer: Using technical medical jargon without explanation during family updates
Using unexplained medical jargon excludes families from understanding and participating in care, directly undermining the core principle of family-centered information sharing.
A nurse is helping parents transition from NICU to home with their medically complex infant. Which action BEST prepares the family for this transition?
Answer: Conducting rooming-in experiences and return demonstrations prior to discharge
Rooming-in allows parents to practice full caregiving responsibilities in a supported environment, and return demonstrations confirm competency before the family goes home independently.