title: A family assessment tool for hospitalized elders.
abstract: This article describes the development of the FAMILY card, a family assessment instrument used in the Nursing Care Quality Initiative (NCQI) to assess the involvement and needs of family members of hospitalized elders. Through the NCQI project, particular attention has been paid to integrating both clinical expertise in geriatric nursing care and the principles of family-centered care into the nursing care provided by staff on the NCQI study units. Two case studies illustrating use of the SPICES geriatric assessment instrument and the newly developed FAMILY assessment card are included as exemplars.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Genetics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Theresa K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Salinas
authors.forename: Linda J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: O'Connor
authors.forename: Melissa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.forename: Shuk Ying Virginia
authors.initials: SY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Joyce J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Fitzpatrick
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D022143:Family Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing / Q000592:standards*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009518:New York; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D011787:Quality of Health Care