The Family's Role in Patient Care
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The Family's Role in Patient Care
The intensive care unit is a busy, noisy environment where there many of the machines in your loved one’s room utilize alarms, lights, and monitors to help our team manage his/her care. Many patients are connected to machines or have tubes attached to them to provide fluids, medication, nutrition, and oxygen. Watching everything that happens may be scary and raise many questions. The doctors, nurses, therapists, and other staff are here to answer your questions, and there are no wrong questions. You loved one’s condition and the unfamiliar environment can make it difficult to remember unfamiliar information, so it is okay to ask questions more than once.