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Interview guide

1. Please describe your role as a critical care nurse. 2. Explain the process in your workplace when a patient codes and requires resuscitation. Does this process differ if family members are present at the hospital? 3. Please tell me about your experiences of being an FSP (or family facilitator) during patient resuscitation. 4. Let's discuss how you perform the FSP role. Please describe, step‐by‐step, what you do. In what ways do you work with family members… ▪ …before they enter the room? ▪ …while they are in the room? ▪ …after they leave the room? ▪ …after the resuscitation ends (positive and/or negative patient outcome)? 5. What do you think are the priority, or most essential, parts of the FSP role? What actions, behaviours, etc. are especially important when performing this role? 6. Are there times when another member of the healthcare team (not nursing) is the FSP? Can you describe how they perform the role? Do you think there is a difference in the way they do it versus the way nurses do it? a 7. Let's go back to when you first started to perform the FSP role…how did you first begin to assume this role? a 8. Describe any role preparation or training you received or undertook, formally and/or informally. a 9. When you first served as an FSP, to what extent did you feel prepared for this role? What factors may have contributed to your feeling of being prepared (or unprepared)? a 10. What training do you think is important to help nurses prepare for the FSP role? a 11. Does your unit have a written policy or protocol that describes what you should do when you are the FSP? If so, please describe. a 12. Are there any other thoughts about FPDR, being an FSP, or role training that you would like to discuss?

^a Findings reported in separate manuscript.