Family Nursing Diagnosis Flashcards
This refers to the clinical judgement about the family’s response to actual or potential health problems or life processes.
Family Nursing Diagnosis
What are the two parts of a nursing diagnosis?
- The statement of the unhealthful response
- The statement of factors that maintain the undesirable response and preventing the desired change.
What are the five (5) main family nursing problems?
- Inability to recognize the presence of the condition/problem due to …
- Inability to make decisions with respect to taking appropriate health actions due to…
- Inability to provide nursing care to the sick, disabled, dependent or at-risk member of the family due to…
- Inability to provide a home environment which is conducive to health maintenance and personal development due to…
- Failure to utilize community resources for health care due to…
This is an alternative tool for formulating a nursing diagnosis based on the premise that a nursing action may help a family in providing for a health need or resolving health problem by promoting the family’s coping capacity.
Family Coping Index
In using the FCI, a family health care need is present when?
- The family has a health problem with which they are unable to cope
- There is a reasonable likelihood that nursing will make a difference in the family’s ability to cope.
What are the 9 areas of assessment of the Family Coping Index?
- Physical Independence (performance of ADLs, mobility)
- Therapeutic competence (ability to comply with prescribed or recommended procedures and treatmens)
- Knowledge of health condition (understanding the health conditions)
- Application of principles of personal and general hygiene
- Health care attitudes (family’s perception to health care)
- Emotional competence (emotional maturity)
- Family living patterns (interpersonal relationship with family members)
- Physical environment (home, school, work and community)
- Use of community facilities (family’s ability to seek and utilize health services)
This is the process of setting health care goals and generating plans for action to collect specific data or make decisions on family care.
Planning (Outcomes Identification)
What does Planning for Plan of Care include?
It includes Priority Setting, Establishing Goals & Objectives, and Determining appropriate interventions.
What are the factors to be considered in Priority Setting?
- Family Safety
- Family perception
- Practicality
- Projected effects
This factor in priority setting makes sure that the family will be given a sense of accomplishment and confidence.
Projected effects
This factor in priority setting considers the available resources or constraints of the family.
Practicality
This factor in priority setting gives most priority to the most-life threatening conditions in the family such as a communicable disease.
Family Safety
This factor in priority setting considers the views/need of the family on a problem whether they view it as most urgent or important.
Family perception
True or False. Establishing goals and objectives must be set jointly with the family.
True.
Difference of goal between objective.
Goal is the desired family response to a planned intervention in response to a mutually identified problem. Meanwhile, objective refers to the desired step-by-step family responses as they work towards the goal.