reliability and validity in nursing research

Korean scholars have recently started to pay attention to FCC and have conducted descriptive studies, such as a concept analysis on hospitalized children’s FCC, a concept analysis on parent participation in the care of hospitalized children, and an integrative review of family-centered rounds in care for hospitalized children. In other countries, applied intervention studies of FCC on a wide range of subjects, not restricted to children, are being actively conducted. As such, the attitudes of practicing nurses are important, and for more active utilization of FCC in the pediatric nursing field, the first step is for the attitudes of pediatric nurses when dealing with patients’ families to be assessed and improved. , nurses’ lack of a philosophical background on FCC and negative attitudes towards families were the greatest obstacles in performing high-quality FCC. In fact, according to research by Coyne et al. In order to put FCC into practice, it is very important for the nurses to recognize the importance of family and to have a supportive attitude towards families. Many researchers are taking notice of the importance of FCC in pediatric nursing, and families also want to participate in children’s nursing however, South Korea’s FCC practices in pediatric nursing currently do not meet such demands. Meanwhile, research by Kim and Cho suggested that the mothers of the hospitalized children wished to be respected by the nurses, to participate in the nursing of their children, and to receive enough information to work together with nurses, but felt that they were not respected by the pediatric nurses or did not receive enough information.

A recent study by Bae and Lee on pediatric nursing also found that the partnership between the hospitalized children’s parents and nurses had a significant influence on the quality of pediatric nursing.

Pediatric nurses, therefore, must have appropriate attitudes that recognize the importance of considering the child’s family as care recipients along with the hospitalized child. FCC acknowledges the importance of family, respects the unique features and values of the family, and shares information with them for better decision-making, while sharing responsibility for the results. In the clinical field of caring for children, the pediatric patient’s family members are joint recipients of care, while at the same time they are not passive recipients or representative of the patient rather, they are companions who express the preferences and expectations of the pediatric patient. The patient’s parents and family members play very important roles in caring for their hospitalized child in pediatric nursing practice in Korea.

Reliability and validity in nursing research