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)
•Social unit interacting with the larger society
•Two or more persons who are joined together by bonds of sharing emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of the family.
Family
Two or more people who live in the same household (usually) share a ?
common emotional bond and perform interrelated social tasks (Rector and Stanley 2021)
•Family is a source for the day to day living and health of its members
•Family provides its individual members with key resources for healthful living, including food, clothing, shelter, a sense of self-worth and access to medical care
•It is a socioeconomic process
(Lynn E. Young)
Family Health
•Family is a source for the day to day living and health of its members
•Family provides its individual members with key resources for healthful living, including food, clothing, shelter, a sense of self-worth and access to medical care
•It is a socioeconomic process
(Lynn E. Young)
Family health
The family ?
•Family works together
•Family organize itself against potential threats
•Depends on the structure
•Provision of family-centered care
Family purpose
•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
Family tasks and roles
changing and often are not well defined
● problem solver
●Decision maker
●Health manager
●Wage earner
●Financial manager
●nurturer
Refers to the interactions of family members, especially the quality of relationships and interactions (Bomar 2004)
Family function
Purpose of family function
To meet the need of the individual
•To meet the need of the society
•To provide sustenance and support in the 5 areas of wholeness:
physical, emotional , intellectual, social, spiritual
➢The family is responsible for meeting each member’s needs for food, clothing , shelter and protection from harm including illness.
➢Provider / family income
➢“the wage earner”
➢Who is 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”
•Proper allocation
Allocation of Resources
•parental attachment to a child
•begins before birth ,continues throughout life
•Parent child relationships
•emotional adjustments later in life
•Children imitate the behavior of family members
•Good behaviors rewarded and bad punished
Emotional support
Somebody who takes care or act as the primary care giver to children or a member of a family
The Nurturer
•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 they are part of the family
Preparing children to live in the community and to interact with people outside the home
Child learns rules of the society and the culture in which the family lives; its language, values, ethics and acceptable behaviors
Socialization
•The values and meaning in life
•Religion
Spirituality
➢Reproductive function and child rearing
➢Continuity of the family (surnames)
Procreation
Family function
Physical Sustenance
Allocation of Resources
Emotional Support
The nurturer
Intellectual stimulation
Socialization
Spirituality
Procreation
➢Whole family works as team
➢Family working for economy
e.g farming, fishing, doctor, lawyer,SM
Economic function
•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
Establishing rules about expected responsibilities and roles
Maintenance of Order