Family Health Nursing Flashcards
Group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons related to the head by blood, marriage or adoption (US Census Bureau, 2005)
Family
Consist of individual, each with socially recognized status and position who interact with one another on a regular, recurring basis (Henson,
Gedaly Duff and Kaakinen, 2005)
Family Structure or Family Composition
It refers to the interactions of family members, especially the quality of relationships and interactions (Bomar 2004)
Family Function
What are the purpose of family function?
- To meet the need of the society
- To meet the need of the individual
- To provide sustenance and support in the 5 areas of wholeness: physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual
What are the purpose of the family?
- To ensure survival of the unit and its individual members
- To continue the society and it’s knowledge, customs, values and beliefs
- It establishes a primary connection with a group responsible for a person until that person becomes independent
What are the 8 tasks identified by Duvall and Miller (1990) that is essential for a family to perform to survive as a healthy unit?
- Physical Sustenance
- Allocation of Resources
- Emotional Support
- Intellectual Stimulation
- Socialization
- Spirituality
- Status Placement
- Maintenance of Order
- Division of Labor
The family is responsible for meeting each member’s needs for food, clothing , shelter and protection from harm including illness.
“the wage earner”
Physical Sustenance
The family determines which needs have priority and what resources will be used to meet those needs.
“the financial manager”
Allocation of Resources
Parent child relationships to emotional adjustments later in life
Good behaviors rewarded and bad punished
Welfare and protection
“the nurturer”
Emotional Support
Parents read to the unborn children and play music to provide early stimulation
The need for intellectual development continues throughout life
Intellectual Stimulation
This task includes being certain that children feel part of the family and learning appropriate ways to interact with people outside the family such as teachers, neighbors, or police. It means the family has an open communication system among family members and outward to the community.
Socialization
The values and meaning in life; Religion. It involves the procreation and economic function.
Spirituality
Society is characterized by a hierarchy of its members into social classes
The family confers its societal rank on the children
“the gate keeper”
Status Placement
Opening effective means of communication among family members, establishing family values, enforcing common regulations for all family members
Maintenance of Order
Who fulfill certain roles in times of illness/ death roles may change
Reproduction , recruitment and release of family member
Division of Labor
What are the 2 basic family types can be described?
- Family of Orientation
- Family of Procreation
A basic family type where the family one is born into; or oneself, parents, and siblings, if any
Family of Orientation
A basic family type where a family one establishes; or oneself, spouse or
significant other, and children, if any
Family of Procreation
Consist of married couple and their biologic children. They live together including the siblings. No other persons are present.
(Family Structure)
Traditional Nuclear Family
Composed of two parents and their children (either biologic or adopted) who share a common household. Parents are not necessarily married. No other relatives or non relatives are present in the household.
(Family Structure)
Nuclear Family
Consisting only of husband and wife, such as newly married couples and “empty nesters”.
Two people living together
(Family Structure)
The Dyad Family
Also called reconstituted family. It includes at least one stepparent, stepsibling or half sibling.
(Family Structure)
Blended Family / Step Family
Consist of one or more nuclear families plus other relatives, often crossing generations to include grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins.
(Family Structure)
Extended Family
Children born out of wedlock, divorce, death, desertion or single parenthood.
(Family Structure)
Single Parent Family
