Abstract
Traditionally, nursing practice in critical care settings has been focused on recognizing and addressing the needs of the patient with an acute and critical illness. However, family also needs crisis intervention and we should focuses on recognizing the needs of individual family members.
The purpose of this study is to review the literature from 1996 to 2006 that has examined needs of relatives in foreign countries and compare the review of foreign countries with Japanese. The ultimate goal of the review is to determine our usefulness for nursing practice in critical care and make the future theme clarify.
Studies about family needs in circumference stage of surgery were six cases out of 60. In our country, also there was a little study that treated scheduled operation with total 30%. As for the assessment tool, there was the most study using the original and a translated sentence of CCFNI. In our country, there was the most study that used CCFNI which removed the item which did not adjust to Japanese culture. Both domestic and foreign, the place of sampling was confined by ICU and CCU. In addition, study aimed for grasp of need held half abroad and agreed with a trend of our country.
In both domestic and foreign, there was a little study to relate to the patient and was aimed for an operation and nursing practice of concreteness to family needs. Therefore investigational need to be depended in future, and to enable presentation of nursing practice was suggested.
