Family-centered care

Abstract

Writing these aticles has been an interprofessional effort. This is noteworthy because FCC was once considered a topic central only to nursing interest. In this symposium, there is an author collaboration of nursing and physicians from intensive care, psychiatry, bioinformatics, quality management, and sleep science. The aim of the symposium is to provide readers with best practices for FCC. We now know that FCC is important for preventing post-intensive care syndrome-family, the constellation of long-Term mental health, physical, and social outcomes associated with exposure to critical illness.8,9 Actions taken in the ICU can have far-reaching long-Term consequences-either preserving or harming patients' families. Therefore, delivering FCC is not only an extra service or an effort at raising satisfaction scores, but also a matter of public health. We hope that the articles in this symposium will supplement the FCC guidelines1 by helping clinicians move recommendations into practice for the health of our communities and stimulate advances in the profession through continued testing of FCC interventions.