Jennifer de Beer Enhancing family care during critical illness

FINDINGS Conceptualization of the meaning family care: Ubuntu (togetherness): Ukubambisana (partnership): Ukuhlonipha (respect and dignity)“FC in South Africa means, togetherness, people first,ubuntu, also keeping people informed, where you takea total outsider as your family. When visitors enter theICU, they shouldn’t be regarded as visitors but be partof the family, the ICU family because we all help eachother to cope…. We deal with the critical illness of thepatient together ….you treat each other as equalindividuals, creating a sense of harmony”