Background: Shared responsibility is an essential part of family-centred care and it characterizes the relationship between parents and healthcare professionals. Despite this, little is known about their shared responsibility for decision-making in neonatal intensive care units.
Aim: The aim of this scoping review was to identify previous studies on the subject and to summarize the knowledge that has been published so far.
Purpose: To describe parents' perceptions of their responsibilities for their infant's care during admission to a single family room in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
Design And Methods: A qualitative study with semi-structured individual interviews conducted at a family-centered level III Finnish NICU in late 2016 and early 2017. The participants were 10 mothers and nine fathers of infants aged from six days to eight months.