Family Nursing Flashcards
Family as context:
Who does it look at?
For what purpose?
Where used
Focus on individual with family as background
To see how family members help with illness promo and prevention
Maternity and acute care
What three areas did family nursing originate?
Maternal, mental health, community
Family as client:
Who does it look at?
Where is this used
Looks at how individuals within fam are being affected
Outpatient settings and maternity
Family as a system:
Who does it look at?
What does nurse focus on?
Looks as family as a whole and subsystems
How relationships are affected
Social science theory
What kind of family does it look at?
What kind of approach is used
Normal families
Interdisciplinary, primarily sociological
Family as system approach:
Influential
Nurse looks at family as whole or subsystems
Family systems assumptions
Families have features to maintain stability
Families change in response to internal/external
Family complexity increases overtime
Families ability to cope increases over time
Family Systems concepts:
Whole is greater than sum
Interrelated
Boundaries flexible closed or open
Made out of subsystems
Family systems strengths
Assess fam as whole
Good comprehensive assessment tool
Family systems weakness
Generalized
Ask fam what is significant to them
Developmental theory
Helps nurses see normal family stages and recognize them
Focuses on developmental stages
Developmental theory assumptions
All families go through transitions around the same period of time
Families who go through transitions at normal time are satisfied and will adapt successfully
Families who don’t go through transitions at normal time will be dissatisfied or unhappy
Developmental theory concepts
Families are constantly changing
Families go through many transitions
Developmental strengths
Normal period of time recognition
Developmental theory weakness
Made when nuclear fam dominated
