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.
What does SMART in creating objectives stand for?
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Realistic/Relevant
Time-bounded
What are the three types of Nursing Interventions?
- Supplemental Interventions
- Facilitative Interventions
- Developmental Interventions
This intervention refers to the nurse performing on behalf of the family when it is unable to do things for itself.
Supplemental Interventions
This intervention refers to removing barriers to appropriate health actions, such as helping family avail of health services from health centers or through proper referral.
Facilitative Interventions
This intervention aims to improve the capacity of the family to provide for their own health needs which are directed toward family empowerment.
Developmental Interventions
This is a process of carrying out a health care plan as formulated through caring, curing, and coordinating.
Implementation
This is the step wherein the family and/or the nurse execute the plan of action.
Implementation
What are the 3 skills necessary for a community health nurse?
- Human skills
- Technical skills
- Conceptual skills
Which among the barriers during the implementation phase belongs to the family-related barrier?
A. Imposing ideas
B. Negative Labelling
C. Overlooking family strengths
D. Apathy and indecision on the part of the family
D. Apathy and indecision on the part of the family
What are the five (5) nursing activities that belong to the Implementation phase?
A. Utilize health action or measure according to the level of prevention and promotion of health.
B. Applying Care, Cure, and Coordination in Nursing Care Plan.
C. Involving family members in nursing care.
D. Execute, administer, and provide health care based on allowable nursing standards and procedures.
E. Teach non-sick member to perform home care in accordance with nursing care plan.
This is the process of determining the outcome or result of the action taken, whether it is successful or not in meeting the objectives of care. This is also considered as the final step that helps the nurse whether to continue. with the plan of care or not.
Evaluation
Two types of Evaluation.
- Formative Evaluation
- Summative Evaluation
What are the four (4) aspects of Evaluation?
- Effectiveness
- Appropriateness
- Adequacy
- Efficiency
