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- Priti P Desai, Jodie B Ng, and Susan G Bryant.
- Patient and Family Support Services, Sibley Heart Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Crit Care Nurs Q. 2002 Nov 1; 25 (3): 88-97.
AbstractThe staff of Patient and Family Support Services oversees the developmental, psychosocial, and spiritual care of the child in the cardiac intensive care unit. Staff collaborate with medical team members, as well as the patient's family, to promote holistic care. This article describes the roles and responsibilities of the child life specialist, the social worker, and the chaplain and identifies discipline-specific assessment techniques and interventions. The article highlights identified needs of children and their families, offering tools and interventions health care clinicians can use in the cardiac intensive care unit.
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