The concept of patient-centered care has been emphasized over and over again throughout my nursing education. However, family-centered care is an approach that is less talked about. The family interview allowed an opportunity for me to apply family-centered care to a patient on the post-partum unit.
I interviewed a 38-yeard old patient who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl. The baby girl was four days old. The mother has a history of pulmonary embolism, hypertension and is currently a smoker. She is also obese with a BMI of 51. The mother is a manger at a restaurant. The father of the baby is a healthy 48 years old man who is unemployed. The patient has five other children; a 12-years old son, a 12-years-old daughter, a nine-years …show more content…
Since the father of the baby is not around, the mother lacks social and instrumental support from her partner. My first intervention was to identify who could provide support to the mother in the absence of the father. The patient mentioned that her parents and sister provide emotional and practical support to her and the baby. The patient lives with her parents and her sister. Her sister will help her by babysitting the baby when she goes back to work. I also screened the mother for postpartum depression as it has been demonstrated that lack of support from the woman’s partner increases her risk of postpartum depression. The postpartum screen indicated that the mother did not have depression and that she was emotionally stable. Lastly, since the patient is a smoker, I wanted to encourage her to stop smoking. I asked her about quitting and mentioned that I could provide with her resources to help her quit. However, the patient stated that she did not want to quit at the moment. At the end of the interview, I commended the patient on her strength. Despite the lack of support from her partner, she had good birth and labor experience and is capable of caring for her
I interviewed a 38-yeard old patient who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl. The baby girl was four days old. The mother has a history of pulmonary embolism, hypertension and is currently a smoker. She is also obese with a BMI of 51. The mother is a manger at a restaurant. The father of the baby is a healthy 48 years old man who is unemployed. The patient has five other children; a 12-years old son, a 12-years-old daughter, a nine-years …show more content…
Since the father of the baby is not around, the mother lacks social and instrumental support from her partner. My first intervention was to identify who could provide support to the mother in the absence of the father. The patient mentioned that her parents and sister provide emotional and practical support to her and the baby. The patient lives with her parents and her sister. Her sister will help her by babysitting the baby when she goes back to work. I also screened the mother for postpartum depression as it has been demonstrated that lack of support from the woman’s partner increases her risk of postpartum depression. The postpartum screen indicated that the mother did not have depression and that she was emotionally stable. Lastly, since the patient is a smoker, I wanted to encourage her to stop smoking. I asked her about quitting and mentioned that I could provide with her resources to help her quit. However, the patient stated that she did not want to quit at the moment. At the end of the interview, I commended the patient on her strength. Despite the lack of support from her partner, she had good birth and labor experience and is capable of caring for her