ABSTRACT
Waiting is inevitable for patients and families seeking health care services. Anxiety, frustration, and stress are exacerbated. A pager program, where pagers are loaned free of charge to families, uses a family-centered approach to counteract the aggravation of waiting. Patients and families can leave the hospital room or clinic setting and then be paged to return as needed. In any clinical setting, having choices and control will enhance coping and satisfaction for both patients and families.
Subject(s)
Child, Hospitalized , Family/psychology , Hospital Communication Systems , Waiting Lists , Adaptation, Psychological , Adult , Child , Humans , Patient Satisfaction , Patient-Centered Care/organization & administration , Pilot ProjectsABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To examine the effects of an educational intervention that teaches specialized newborn, care to substance-abusing mothers. METHOD: A quasi-experimental design included an educational intervention for a group of mothers whose babies had positive meconium stains for cocaine. Outcomes were to be assessed by the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale and Nursing Child Assessment Feeding Scale. FINDINGS: Due to a change in the hospital's discharge policy resulting in early discharge, recruitment difficulties occurred. CONCLUSION: The ramifications of this change in discharge policy are discussed.
