Family Staff Partnerships

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Family-Staff partnerships in care for people with mental illness Introduction of Family-Staff Care Partnerships: A family-staff partnership in care is a dynamic and formal relationship between the family members of a mentally unfit patient and the nursing staff assisting the patient, and aiming towards the healing of the patient together. This partnership depends upon the sharing and negotiating of the responsibilities between the family members and the staff, along the entire procedure of treating the patient, the responsibilities can change with the changing course of the patient’s treatment. While the staff can take the responsibility of medications and other treatment needs, the family can have roles varying from active involvement to …show more content…

They also complain about not being informed regarding treatment procedures owing to the doctors who do not keep the family members updated about the diagnosis. Often, the diagnosis is such a numerously fragmented process, that it seems complicated to the patient and his/her family caretakers. What is necessary then is the proper guidance from the staff’s side, which goes unnoticed and deemed as not important. Health care providers admit that they are inefficient regarding assisting families in such situations, though little or no attempts of improvement of the situation are …show more content…

Supportive relationships between patient’s family and hospital staff benefits the patient, the family and the staff. The following are the ways in which each of them is benefitted: • Family: The formal involvement of family members in family-staff care partnerships provides social support, lowers distress, and reduces feelings of guilt and loss to the family. It helps the family adapt to the changes involved in transition to nursing home, and helps fight the feeling of being entrapped in sadness and obligations. • Staff Members: When family members involve themselves in the treatment procedures, nursing home staff often feels a sense of satisfaction about their roles. They realize that their services are well enough to keep the patient and the staff contented. The family members can also help patients better when family members provide them information about the patient’s biological history, medical history and so on, which can help immensely in the diagnosis procedure. Often, we find that staff plays a dominating role over the patient regarding his/her treatment, and allow no interference of the family members, which often led to disputes and uneasiness between the staff and the family. Care partnerships between family and staff can greatly reduce and avoid such unwanted

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