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Family centred care listens to and incorporates patient
and parent choices, perspectives and beliefs into care plans
and institution-wide; shares complete, unbiased and timely
information in useful ways so patients and families can
participate as they are comfortable; collaborates with families
in delivery of care, policy and program development, implementation
and evaluation, facility design and professional education.
Projects: Nursing
Award for Excellence in Family-Centred Care, Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit Family Care Group, mural for physio-therapy
program, child and caregiver music group, editable website
for Toronto
Critical Care Nurses.
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Bringing Sasha home to die was a positive outcome for Sasha
and her family after 5 months of diminishing quality of
life in hospital. Yet only 8-12% of Canadian children needing
advanced palliative care get these resources. With SickKids
Palliative Care Service, the Fund created an Innovation
Fund for palliative care research and The Wire built
the website for the TRAC-PG
national palliative research network. The Fund will be a
key sponsor for a first Palliative Care Research Symposium
to be held October 14, 2009.
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communication within and between medical specialist teams
is vital to family-centred care. IPP raises patient safety
and family and staff satisfaction scores and better uses capacity.
Barriers to family-centred IPP include hospital hierarchy,
care complexity, unit specific culture and even staff style.
The Fund spoke at and sponsored the first SickKids
IPP Education Week in 2007, supports a story project to
allow family centred review of challenging care plans and
created a new hospital-wide IPP
award.
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You can see a detailed list of
the The Sasha Bella Fund's
low cost, high impact, family directed initiatives at Sickkids
and can support the Fund online
or by calling Laurel Shillingford at 416 813 7588. Corporate
sponsors please call 416 214 9473 x30.
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