With the current focus on outcomes of care and promoting the image of nursing there is significant attention on how families perceive nursing care. These authors provided a patient satisfaction model in a previous article in DCCN (September-October, page 272). Here they describe nursing techniques which help to increase family satisfaction by meeting the families expectations or helping them to adjust their expectations.
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Long et al. (1994) studied this question.