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Family Integrated Care: A Framework for Practice
Position statement or standardsBAPM2021published 17 Nov 2021
- Allied health
- Comfort and nursing care
- Communicating with families
- Developmental care and positioning
- Families and professional practice
- Family-integrated care
- Medical
- Nursing
Summary
This BAPM Framework for Practice describes Family Integrated Care (FICare), a model of neonatal care that promotes partnership between families and staff. It aims to enable parents to become confident, knowledgeable and independent primary caregivers for their baby. The framework sets out a model of FICare and a structure for implementing it across UK neonatal units and networks. It is relevant to the whole multidisciplinary neonatal team.
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