Background : The critical-ill status of the child leaves the nurses in the state of dilemma regarding involving the family members in providing the supportive care to the child. The assessment of the caregiver’s involvement and skill in providing child care can reduce some of the nurse’s workload in an overloaded critical care setting. Methods : Research design: A descriptive study Study Setting: A Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a tertiary care hospital in North India. Sample: A total 142 caregivers were involved in the study. All the consecutive admissions were screened for inclusion in the study (PICU admission for atleast 24 hours) and family members (caregivers) of the admitted children who remain with the child for atleast 6 hours a day were enrolled. Methodology: A structured interview schedule using a ‘Patient Care Sheet’ was conducted. A ‘Patient Care Sheet’ contains two parts: Part-A: contained demographic details of the child and the caregiver; Part –B contained list of child care activities categorized under 7 domains: Personal Care, Nutrition, Elimination, Respiratory Therapy, Medication administration, Decision-making and miscellaneous. Results : The family members/caregivers were frequently involved in number of child care activities such as arranging supplies to provide bath/skin care to the child (97.9%), providing bath to the child (97.2%), combing the hair of the child (38%), measuring the feed of the child (83.8), warming the feed to the room temperature (83.8), emptying the urine bag (40.1%), cleaning the child after defecation (86.6%), changing the diaper/ clothes of the child (88%) and weighting the diaper of the child (73.2%), bringing samples to the laboratory (60.6%), collecting reports from the laboratory (70.4%) and informing nurse/ physician regarding change in clinical status of the child (44.4%). Further it was found that caregivers were frequently involved in providing bedpan/changing diaper and weighing the diaper of the male child than female child. A significant relationship has been found with involvement of the female caregivers especially mothers in number of child care activities such as arranging supplies to provide bath/skin care to the child (χ2=14.152, p=0.028), changing diaper of the child (χ2=9.671, p=0.022), weighing the diaper of the child (χ2=27.042, p=0.003) and administering oral medications (χ2=18.165, p=0.020). It was also found that the caregivers were not involved in providing any kind of respiratory therapy to the child irrespective of the duration of mechanical ventilation and PICU stay. However, during the initial days of admission (< 5days) to PICU, they were sometimes told to bring samples to the laboratory and collect reports from them but were refrained from transporting the child for any diagnostic purpose to the other department in the hospital. Conclusion : The study concluded that the caregivers performed non-technical tasks frequently but the performance of technical tasks such as respiratory therapy lied with the nurses.