0 Endacott, Ruth Berry,Janet 2007 Nursing in Critical Care 12 1 4-5 01/2007 family care When a patient is admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), the central focus is 'on patients' life-threatening pathophysiological states and on stabilizing interventions' (Benner et al., 1999, p. 294). Secondary to this role is caring for the patient's family, and it is suggested that nurses working in general (adult) ICUs have much to learn about family-centred care from paediatric intensive care unit nurses (Latour, 2005). http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1478-5153.2006.00201.x