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Family Presence During Resuscitation Attempts.  

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Running Head: FAMILY PRESENCE Family Presence During Resuscitation Attempts Fort Hays State University Family Presence During Resuscitation Attempts Its five AM and an unresponsive patient is wheeled into an emergency suite. The scene is like that from a movie including nurses, doctors, chest compressions, IV drips, and alarms. But what is missing? The family. They've been strategically placed in the cold impersonal waiting room. Wondering, with great anticipation, what is happening on the other side of that door. It is at this moment that you must leave your nursing background behind and find yourself inside the minds of those loved ones. Can you imagine the helpless feeling? The intense anxiety? The ultimate loss of control? This leads us to the loaded question, should family members be allowed in the room during resuscitation attempts? A review of history indicates that only a mire thirty years ago families weren't even encouraged to be in the delivery...

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