Abstract
Family-centred care (FCC) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an aspect of high-quality neonatal nursing. The aim of this manuscript is to clarify the meaning of FCC in the NICU to inform future research.Rodger's evolutionary concept analysis. Three databases were searched, each representing a different discipline: CINAHL, Medline, and PsycINFo.A total of 188 full-text papers were included. The concept of FCC in the NICU was defined according to its surrogate and related terms, antecedents, attributes, and consequences.Although interdisciplinary in nature, academic literature about FCC in the NICU is dominated by a biomedical perspective. Important conceptual departures, namely developmental care and family-integrated care are discussed.Considering FCC as a model of care may be too reductionist; it should be regarded as a philosophy. Further work should explore the delivery of FCC for increasingly specialized NICU populations, such as perioperative infants.
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