Study On The Critical Care Family Needs

BackgroundsIntensive care makes obvious increasing in rescue achievement ratio of critical deseases and enhance the ability to support and protect failure organs. Many critical patients recovered from illness gradually because of intensive care. Critical care has been firstly focused on the impacts of a life-threatening illness on patient. Limited attention and care has been paid to critical patients' family members, whose needs have been ignored or inaccurately perceived by intensive care unit (ICU) medical staff. Lots of study show critical illness and subsequent hospitalization are a kind of stress for critical patients' family members, that may be a direct influence to family members' health. Furthermore, there is a close correlation between health condition of family members and convalescence of patients . So to meet needs of critical patients' family members can relieve the stress of family members and retain their physical and mental health, accordingly benefit patient's recovery.Last 30 years, the needs of families of critically ill patients have been addressed in several research studies in Western ICU institutions. Based on lots of early studies, the first edition of the Critical Care Family Needs Inventory (CCFNI) was established by Molter (1979).Then critical care family needs became to research hot spot until today in west counties. CCFNI was revised by Leske(1991) and be used wildly...