Bourdieu at the bedside: briefing parents in a pediatric hospital.
The philosophy of family-centered care (FCC) promotes partnerships between families and staff to plan, deliver, and evaluate services for children and has been officially adopted by a majority of pediatric hospitals throughout North America. However, studies indicated that many parents have continued to be dissatisfied with their decision-making roles in their child's care. This is particularly salient for parents of children with chronic ongoing complex health problems. These children are dependent upon medical technology and require frequent hospitalizations during which parents must contribute to difficult decisions regarding their child's care. Given this clinical issue, an alternative theoretical perspective was explored to redress this problem. Pierre Bourdieu's theoretical concepts of field, capital, and habitus were used to analyze the hierarchical relationships in pediatric acute care hospitals and to design a briefing intervention aimed at improving parents' satisfaction with decision making in that health care setting.
Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada.|The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Karen
K
LeGrow
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Ellen
E
Hodnett
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Robyn
R
Stremler
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.|Bloorview Research Institute, Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Patricia
P
McKeever
The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.|Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Eyal
E
Cohen
D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D022143:Family Nursing; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D014789:Visitors to Patients
Bourdieu; children with complex health problems; family-centered care; parent briefing