Pediatric Nursing by Kathryn Rudd,Diane Kocisko

Exercise 8

You are caring for a 2-year-old child on the evening shift at the hospital where you work. Visiting hours are now over, but parents have arrived to visit their child.Which statement shows that you and your nursing peers understand the concept of family-centered care?
A) Tell the parents to go home and get some rest so that they can come back and visit tomorrow.
B) Encourage the parents to room in/stay with the child overnight at the hospital. Assure them that you will wake them up and include them in any care that needs to be provided to their child during the night.
C) Tell the parents that they can stay overnight with the patient if they stay out of the way of the nursing staff during the procedures that they need to perform on the child.
D) Tell the parents to go home and get some rest so that they will be of use to the child the next day. Let them know that they are welcome to call at any time during the night for information.