Family Nursing Process Flashcards
Is an essential and indispensable equipment of a public health nurse which she has to carry along during herhome visits.
Public Health Nurse Bag
Takes place in a private clinic, health center, barangay health station, or in an ambulatory clinic during a community outreach activity.
Clinic Visit
A professional, purposeful interaction that takes place in the family’s residence aimed at promoting, maintaining, or restoring the health of the family or its members
Home Visit
It is a family-nurse contact where, instead of the family going to the nurse, the nurse goes to the family
Home Visit
The nurse makes a ____________ upon the family’s request, as a result of a case finding, in response to a referral, or to follow-up clients who have utilized services of a health facility such as a health center, lying-in clinic, or hospital
Home Visit
Phases of Home Visit
Pre-visit Phase
In-home Phase
Initiation
Implementation
Termination
Post-visit Phase
The nurse contacts the family, determines the family’s willingness for a home visit, and sets an appointment with them. A plan for the home visit is formulated during this phase.
Pre-visit Phase
The nurse seeks permission to enter and lasts until he or she leaves the family’s home.
In-home Phase
involves the application of the nursing process – assessment, provision of direct nursing care as needed, and evaluation.
Implementation
Consists of techniques such as interview, physical examination, and simple diagnostic examinations that can be done at home (Capillary blood glucose determination). It includes observation of family dynamics and the family’s physical environment (use Family Assessment Form as a guide).
Assessment
Consists of summarizing with the family the events during the home visit and setting a subsequent home visit or another form of nurse-patient contact such as a clinic visit.
Termination
Takes place when the nurse has returned to the health facility. This involves documentation of the visit during which the nurse records events that transpired during the visit, including personal observations and feelings of the nurse about the visit. If appropriate, a referral may be made.
Post-visit Phase
Provides opportunity for initial contact between the nurse and target families of the community
Group Conference
Used to give specific information to families, such as instructions given to parents through school children
Written Communication
Are reflected in data on household membership and demographic characteristics, family members living outside the household, family mobility, and family dynamics (emotional bonding, authority and power structure, autonomy of members, division of labor, and patterns of communication, decision making, and problem and conflict resolution). Data on family structure can be visualized clearly through graphic tools such as genogram, ecomap, and/or family health tree.
Family Structure and Characteristics
This category is concerned with the ability to move about to get out of bed, to take care of daily grooming, walking and other things which involve daily activities.
Physical Independence
This category includes all the procedures or treatment prescribed for the care of ill, such as giving medication, dressings, exercise and relaxation, special diets, use of prosthetic devices and other adaptive appliances such as wheelchairs and walker.
Therapeutic Competence
This system is concerned with understanding of the health condition or essentials of care according to the developmental stages of family members. Examples are the degree of knowledge of responsible family members in terms of communicability of a disease and its modes of transmission or that a disease is genetically transmitted, as in the case of diabetes mellitus.
Knowledge of Health Condition
This is concerned with the family action in relation to maintaining family nutrition, securing adequate rest and relaxation for family members, carrying out accepted preventive measures, such as immunization. This includes practice of general health promotion and recommended preventive measures.
Application of the Principles of General Hygiene
This category is concerned with the way the family feels about health care in general, including preventive services, care of illness and public health measures. This is observed in the family’s degree of responsiveness to promotive, preventive and curative efforts of health workers.
Health Attitude
This category has to do with the maturity and integrity with which the members of the family are able to meet the usual stresses and problems of life, and to plan for happy and fruitful living. This may be observed in behaviors such as how the family members deal with daily challenges, their ability to sacrifice and think of others, and acceptance to responsibility.
Emotional Competence
This category is concerned largely with the interpersonal or group aspects of family life – how well the members of the family get along with one another, the ways in which they take decisions affecting the family as a whole. This also refers to the management of family finances and the type of discipline in the home.
Family Living
This is concerned with the home, school, work and the community and the work environment as it affects family health.
Family Environment
This is the ability of the family to seek and utilize, as needed, both government-run and private health, education, and other community services.
Use of Community Facilities
