Family process Flashcards

1
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What are commonalties among families who cope well? (10)

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Spirituality
Positive Outlook
Family Accord
Social Support
Mutual recreational interests
Routines & rituals
Flexibility
Financial management
time together
communication
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What are family processes?

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Coping
resilience
power
decision making
communication
routines and rituals
Roles
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3
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Who are vulnerable families?

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illness
poverty
sauce environmental
history
colonialism
abuse
violence
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4
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Key processes in family resilience (3)

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Belief System
Organizational Pattern
Communication

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5
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Belief system as process of family resilience:

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  • finding meaning in adversity
  • positive outlook
  • spiritual / faith system
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Organizational Patterns as family resilience:

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  • connectedness
  • flexibility
  • social & emotional relationships ( do better)
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Communication as family resilience:

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  • open expression of emotion
  • collaboritive health problem solving
  • clarity
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How do nurses support to enhance resilience?

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Relational Nursing Practice
Recognize and acknowledge suffering….
Use empowering processes that work well and are familiar to the family
Use a strength based approach to help families adjust to stressors

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When family processes threatened nurses may help families to: (4)

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  • Help families to: establish priorities, respond to everyday needs, work through practical decision making, provide contact information
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When changing roles in family, nurses can help families?

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adapt, negotiate, give up expectations or find additional resources to support changing roles

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11
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Roles in family?

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Caregiver
provider
sick role
therapeutic role
intamate role
recreational role
kinship
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12
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Family communication is:

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ongoing, complex, changing activity for families to crease & share & regulate meaning to make sense of their world

  • continuous, defines present realities
  • helps family find ways to adapt to change as seeking family stability
  • flexible families adapt more easily
  • adaptability is manifested in how assertive family members are,amount of control in families, family discipline, family power, how rigid family roles are and the nature and enforcement of rules in the family
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What does family decision making provide:

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means for members to contribute to process, support one another, set & achieve goals together

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14
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What process influences decision making outcomes:

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communication

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15
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What is the main goal of conflict in decision making?

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concensus

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16
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Is anger & conflict destructive in decision making?

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not always

17
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What are counterproductive emotions to decision making?

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contempt, belligerence and defensiveness

18
Q

What are examples of family rituals

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formal celebration, traditions, religious observances, symbolism

19
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What are examples of family routines

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patterned bhvrs, interactions linked with daily activities

- including tx. of guests

20
Q

What do family rituals & routines do for family?

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provide organization/meaning

21
Q

What is highly important in family rituals and routines?

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anthropology, sociology

22
Q

What is it important for nurses to assess for rituals and routines?

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ritual & routines specific to health/illness

23
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Why is assessment of family routine & rituals important and what does it do for nurse?

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Provides a basis to envision distinct family interventions
Helps devise specific plans for health promotion and disease management
Important when adherence to medical routines is critical
When caregiving demands are burdensome to families.

24
Q

Roles of parent with child with chronic illness?

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taking care of illness (technological/nontechnological)
nurturing child
nuturing family
parental care (external/internal)

25
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Positive traits of children with siblings that have chronic illness?

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  • Improved empathy
  • Flexibility
  • Pride in learning about chronic illness
  • Growth in understanding concerning parents
  • More caring, mature, supportive, responsible and independent.
  • High levels of empathy, compassion, patience and sensitivity
  • More confidence
26
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Negative outcomes of child with siblings with chronic illness?

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isolation
resentment
guilt
shame