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The Power of Family Engagement in Rounds: An Exemplar With Global Outcomes.
Crit Care Nurse
October 2019
Steffanie A. Strathdee is Harold Simon Professor and Associate Dean of Global Health Sciences, University of California San Diego Department of Medicine, La Jolla, California. In this article she provides a first-person perspective on her experiences as the wife of a patient who was hospitalized with septic shock. Mary Hellyar is an intensive care unit clinical nurse specialist, University of California San Diego Health, La Jolla, California. Carie Montesa is an intensive care unit educator, University of California San Diego Health. Judy E. Davidson is a nurse scientist, University of California San Diego Health
Family engagement in rounds has been recommended to improve communication, but its impact on patient outcomes is unknown. At the authors' institution, nurses encouraged family presence at rounds as part of a larger project to enhance communication during rounding. In the case reported here, family engagement resulted in a critical care patient's wife suggesting bacteriophage therapy, which led to her husband's survival.
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