Family presence during resuscitation: a descriptive study of nurses' attitudes from two Saudi hospitals

Abstract

The findings of the study strongly suggest the need for the development of written policies offering families the option to remain with patients during resuscitation in Saudi Arabia. The study further recommends the development of education programs for staff and public for the safe implementation of the practice.

Should Family be Allowed During Resuscitation

“…However, this was not the case where ICU health care providers with previous experience of family presence during resuscitation were found to be more supportive of the practice, compared to the health care providers with no previous experience [28]. Authors maintained that the Islamic religion and the Saudi culture inluenced the nurses' atitudes towards the practice of family presence [30].…”

“…[29] for opposition such as witnessing resuscitation is a traumatic experience and fearing that family members will negatively impact on the resuscitation team. An interesting inding was a statistically signiicant relationship between nurses with previous experience of family presence and support for the practice [30]. Nurses with previous experience of family presence opposed the practice more than nurses with no previous experience (P = 0.001).…”

“…Further, a total of 132 nurses were surveyed nurses using a self-administered questionnaire in two hospitals in Saudi Arabia [30]. The study found that 75.6% of the participants did not support the family presence practice indicating the same reasons as Ref.…”

“…Additionally, the experience resuscitation creates an intense emotional situation for both patients and their family members [32]. The health care providers reported a need for training programmes to support the family when they atend resuscitation [30][31][32]. A number of studies also emphasised the need to develop educational programmes for medical staf on the safe implementation and practice of family presence [12,24,28].…”

Possibilidade de acompanhar o atendimento emergencial na perspectiva da família: estudo descritivo

“…Hence, the presence of family members during care procedures in emergency units has called attention and motivated debates and studies by researches and health professionals from all over the world, such as Trinidad and Tobago (9) , Australia (10) , Saudi Arabia (11) , and South Korea (12) . Yet, the majority of the researches are limited to investigate the perception of health professionals regarding the topic (9)(10)(11)(12) ,…”