A comparative study of family centered nursing mode and routine clinical nursing mode on postoperative nursing of children with congenital heart disease.

OBJECTIVE

To explore the family-centred postoperative care of congenital heart disease (CHD) patients.

METHODS

A total of 200 child patients with Congenital Heart Disease and their families were selected as the research objects in the study. All the research objects were divided into intervention group and control group, with 100 of them in each group. Based on the current development of the family-centred postoperative care, the paper employed the Delphi Method to construct the contents of family-centred postoperative care and educated the parents with the contents. Later by assessing the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), the oxygen saturation, and the New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classification of the child patients, it was seen that the postoperative pain of patients in the intervention group was more effectively relieved along with a faster recovery of cardiac functions compared to the control group.

RESULTS

The results showed that the absence of parental care was the major stressor for the child patients. For the parents, the lack of knowledge on CHD and its therapy was the source of anxiety.

CONCLUSIONS

Family-centred postoperative care promoted the communications between doctors and parents of child patients, relieved the postoperative pain of the patients and the psychological trauma of their families. The child patients were provided with a better medical environment, which helped in a faster recovery.