Objective: To study the effect of practice of family care in the intensive care unit of neurosurgery(NICU).Method: 276 patients and their family members who were in hospital from January 2006 to December 2007 were taken as study group to implement family care whose core was the management of accompany.241 patients and their family members who were in hospital from July 2004 to December 2005 were taken as control group to implement the management of no-accompany.The observation parameters are satisfaction rate and indicators of nursing qualitative.Results:The satisfaction rate and indicators of nursing quality in the study group are significantly higher than that of the control group(P