TY - JOUR AU - Pandey, Sabita AU - Shrestha, Roshanee AU - Paudel, Narayani PY - 2019/08/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Perception of nurses regarding family needs of critically ill patients in a tertiary hospital of Kathmandu: A cross-sectional study JF - Journal of Kathmandu Medical College JA - J. Kathmandu Med. Coll. VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Original Research Articles DO - 10.3126/jkmc.v8i1.25262 UR - https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JKMC/article/view/25262 SP - 8-12 AB - <p><strong>Background:</strong> Getting serious illness and being admitted in critical care unit is always stressful to patient and family&nbsp;members. Meeting the needs of family members of patients in the intensive care unit is a primary responsibility of&nbsp;intensive care unit staff and an important criterion in assessment of quality of care.</p><p><strong>Objectives:</strong> The aim of this study was to assess the family members’ needs of critically ill patients as perceived by nurses.</p><p><strong>Methodology:</strong> A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted among 50 nurses from different critical care units<br>of Kathmandu Medical College Teaching Hospital using purposive sampling technique. Structured questionnaire was&nbsp;developed by referring to “Critical Care Family Needs Inventory”in our context for data collection and collected data was&nbsp;analyzed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 16.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The mean age of the respondents was 24.98 ± SD 2.77.Regarding education and experience, 58% respondents&nbsp;had proficiency certificate level and 42% had bachelor level education and mean working experience in critical care unit&nbsp;was 37.54 months. Regarding the importance of family needs, 86% nurses perceived “explanation about the critical care&nbsp;unit environment before admitting the patient in critical care unit” as very important need for the relatives. Likewise, 58%&nbsp;nurses perceived “to know which staff members could give what type of information” and “to be alone at any time” as the&nbsp;least important needs.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> The study found that clear explanation about the critical care environment to the relatives is very important&nbsp;to gain co-operation from them in treatment of critically ill patients. Hence, staff of critical care unit needs to be aware in&nbsp;meeting the needs of relatives.</p> ER -