CHN midterm Flashcards
is a social unit interacting with the larger body
Family
is characterized by people together because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice
Family
is two or more persons who are joined together by bonds of sharing and emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of the family
A family
is behaviour or activities by the members that maintain the family and meet family needs, individual members needs and society’s views of family.
Family functioning -
is concerned with how well the family functions together as a unit. It involve also how well they relate to and cope with the community outside the family.
Family health
is the acquired knowledge that family members use to interpret their experiences and to generate behaviours that influence family structure and function
Family culture
(Husband + Wife).
Nuclear Dyad
(Husband +Wife+ Child/ren).
Nuclear Family
(One adult + Child/ren).
Single-parent Family
(shared custody of children (One adult + child/ren part- time).
Divorced Family
(Husband +Wife+ his and/or hers child/ren).
Blended Family
(combination of traditional).
Multigenerational Family
(two or more reciprocal household [related by birth or marriage]).
Kin Network
(extended family group or nonrelatives who provide significant care).
Augmented Family
Elements / Components of PHC MNEMONIC
1- Education
2- Locally Endemic Diseases
3- Essential Drugs
4- Maternal and Child Health Care
5- EPI (Immunization)
6- Nutrition
7- Treatment
8-Safe Water
means any person(s) who plays a significant role in an individual’s life. This may include a person(s) not legally related to the individual. Members of “family” include spouses, domestic partners, and both different-sex and same-sex significant others.
family
Every family is a
small social systems
Every family moves through stages in its life cycle two broad stages.
Period of expanding
Period of contracting
when family add new member/roles.
Period of expanding
when members leave or there is death
period of contracting
“Is a dynamic process of change that occurs in a family involving stages of development which reflect the biological functions of raising children.”
FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
the two family scholars who first developed the theoretical aspects of the Family Developmental Theory.
Evelyn Duvall and Reuben Hill
when was theoretical aspects of the Family Developmental Theory. developed?
beginning of of 1940s
This theory describe the family life overtime as divided into series of stages.
theoretical aspects of the Family Developmental Theory.
The stages is according to (3 stages)
(1) major change in family size,
(2) the developmental of the oldest child,
(3) work status of the breadwinner.
CHARACTERISTICS OF FAMILY
(1) Compound
(2) Communal
(3) No-Kin
(4) Foster
(5) Cohabiting/Live-in.
man/woman with several spouses;
(1) Compound
More than one monogamous couple sharing resources;
(2) Communal
- a group of at least 2 people sharing a relationship, exchange support who have no legal blood or blood tie to each other;
(3) No-Kin
substitute family for children whose parents are unable to care for them
foster
Layman’s term for FAMILY
Live in
- Family Life Cycle has __ Stages.
8
Beginning Families or the Stage of Marriage (Without Children). what stage?
Stage 1
what stage is Childbearing Families (Oldest Child, birth 30 months)
Stage 2
what stage is Families with pre-school children (Oldest child, 2-6
years old.
stage 3
what stage is Families with school children (Oldest child, 6 - 13
years old.
Stage 4:
what stage is Families with teenagers.
Stage 5
> Actively attempt to over come life’s problem and issues.
- Active Coping Effort.
> Create safe and hygienic living conditions for their members.
- Enhance environment and life style.
> Maintain dynamic ties the broader community.
Participate regularly in external groups and activities.
- Regular links with the broader community.
> Discusses problems.
Confront each other.
Share ideas and concerns etc.
Interaction among members.
> Promote each members growth.
- Enhancement of individual development.
> Structure their role relationship to meet changing family needs over time (flexibility of roles).
- Effective structuring of relationship
who said “the family is who they say they say they are”
wright and leahey in 2012
urges health professions acknowledge all types of families even too narrow
Human rights Campaign 92017
what stage is Families as launching center (first child gone to last child leaving home)
stage 6
what stage is Middle age parents (empty nest to retirement)
stage 7
what stage is family members (retirement to death of both spouses)
stage 8
> Family Health Promotion: Health attitudes, behaviours and
values are learned in the family.
Primary Prevention:
> Health Protection: Risk Appraisal /risk reduction.
Primary Prevention:
> Early Diagnosis: Identifying high risk behaviours, screening and detection of family pathology or dysfunction
Secondary Prevention:
> Prompt Treatment: Encouraging ton go to the appropriate facilities for care, family therapy, reporting of suspected abuse etc.
Secondary Prevention:
> Rehabilitation - the family unit may be changed in composition, recovery and maintenance of chronically ill people etc.
Tertiary Prevention:
Help the families to cope with illness, disability or during time of
stress.
ROLE OF THE FAMILY HEALTH NURSE
Give advice on lifestyle and health risks factors as well as assisting families with matters concerning health.
ROLE OF THE FAMILY HEALTH NURSE
Through prompt decision, they can ensure that the health problems of families are treated at an early stage.
ROLE OF THE FAMILY HEALTH NURSE
Identify the effects of socio economic factors in a family’s health and refer them to the appropriate agency
ROLE OF THE FAMILY HEALTH NURSE
Can facilitate the early discharge of people from the hospital by providing nursing care at home and act as the lynchpin between the family and the family health physician.
ROLE OF THE FAMILY HEALTH NURSE
because of experiences gained in independence, you now commit to new family and a new way of life or “interdependenc
Coupling
coupling Goal/s:
- Start a new family with your partner
2.Realign your relationships with your family of origin and your friends to include your partner.
There are three (_) major steps in nursing assessment as applied to family nursing practice.
3
first level assessment involves gathering of five types of data which will generate the categories of health conditions or problems of the family.
Data Collection
FAMILY NURSING ASSESSMENT data
1) Family Structure, characteristic and dynamics,
(2) Socioeconomic and cultural characteristics,
(3) Home and Environment,
(4) Health Status of each member and
(5) Values and practices on health promotion/maintenance and disease prevention.
FAMILY NURSING ASSESSMENT
Family, Structure, Characteristic and Dynamic
FAMILY NURSING ASSESSMENT
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is the most critical stage of the family life cycle.
Independence
independence Goal/s:
(1) Learn to see yourself as a separate person in relation to your parents, siblings and extended family members;
(2) Form intimate peer relationships outside the family and
(3) Establish yourself in your work or career.
Launching Adult Children aka
the “empty nest”.
The empty nest Goal/s:
Goal/s: (1) Refocus on other relationship;
(2) Form adult relationships with your grown children and
(3) Realign relationships to include in-laws and grandchildren if your children start their own families.
2 types of family diagnosing
(1) the definition of wellness state/potential or health condition or problems as an end product of first- assessment and
(2) the definition of family nursing problems as an end result of second-level assessment.
goals of * Retirement or Senior Years.
(1) Maintain your own interest and physical function as your body ages,
(2) Give emotional support to your adult children and grandchildren as well as other family members,
(3) Deal with the loss of peers and prepare for your own death and
(4) Review your life and reflect on all you have learned and experienced during your life.