LEC 2: Definitions

Question 1

Family Nursing

Answer 1

The process of providing for the healthcare needs of families that are within the scope of nursing practice. This nursing care can be aimed towards the family as context, the family as whole, the family as a system, or the family as a component of society.

Question 2

Rational Practice

Answer 2

An understanding of patient’s healthcare needs within complex context, in which patient experience healthcare and nurses deliver nursing care.

Question 3

Family Health

Answer 3

Health is a dynamic changing state of well-being. It includes biological, spiritual, sociological, and cultural factors, and affects individual members and whole family systems. There are various definitions but it is often related to family structure and functioning, and family physical and mental wellness.

Question 4

Family as Context

Answer 4

Nursing care focuses on the individual as client, family as context of the individual. Family may be a stressor or a resource; is also called family-centred care.

Question 5

Family as a Client/Patient

Answer 5

Members assessed separately, NP practice, community care.

Question 6

Family Systems Nursing

Answer 6

Family is the client, viewed as an interactional system, reciprocity, impact.

Question 7

Family Groups in Society

Answer 7

Families are a subsystem or larger systems in the community, society, common issues, and trends.

Question 8

Health Educator

Answer 8

Teaching families formally or informally about health and illness and acting as the main provider of health information.

Question 9

Care provider and Supervisor

Answer 9

Providing direct care and supervising care given by others, including family members and nursing assistants.

Question 10

Family Advocate

Answer 10

Working with support families and speaking up on issues such as safety and access to services.

Question 11

Case Finder and Epidemiologist

Answer 11

Tracking disease and playing a key role in disease surveillance and control.

Question 12

Researcher

Answer 12

Identifying practice problems and seeking answers and solutions through scientific investigation alone or in collaboration.

Question 13

Manager and Coordinator

Answer 13

Managing, collaborating, and liaising with family members, health and social services, and others to improve access to care.

Question 14

Counselor

Answer 14

Playing a therapeutic role in helping to cope with problems and to identify resources.

Question 15

Consultant

Answer 15

Serving as consultant to families and agencies to identify and facilitate access to resources.

Question 16

Environmental Modifier

Answer 16

Working to modify, for example, the home environment so that the disable can improve mobility and engage in self-care.

Question 17

Family

Answer 17

A term used to refer to individuals who are related (biologically, emotionally, or legally) to and/or have close bonds (friendships, commitments, shared households and child rearing responsibilities, and romantic attachments) with the person receiving healthcare. A person’s family includes all those whom the person identifies as significant in their life (parents, caregivers, friends, substitute decision makers, groups, communities, and populations).

Question 18

Lip Service

Answer 18

An avowal of advocacy, adherence, or allegiance expressed in words but not backed by deeds- usually used with pay.

Question 19

Patient-and-Family-Centred Care

Answer 19

An approach to care that recognizes the importance of family and in a patient’s life and the importance of their active involvement in planning and making decisions on healthcare, services and treatment, and health system reform. This approach to care provides respectful, compassionate, culturally safe, and responsive care that meets the needs, values, beliefs, and preferences of the patient, their family, and others identified as significant to their life from diverse backgrounds and settings.

Question 20

Person-Centered-Care Attitudes

Answer 20

Reflects the healthcare provider’s belief in the importance of coming to know the whole person (biophsychosochial and spiritual) when assessing the person’s condition. They also include a belief in the person’s ability to make a decision; the healthcare provider therefore promotes autonomy and sharing of power.

Question 21

Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM)

Answer 21

An integrated, multidimensional framework based on the foundations of systems, cybernetics, communication, and change theory and is influenced by postmodernism and biology of cognition.

Question 22

Genogram

Answer 22

Reveal the family strucutre.

Question 23

Ecomap

Answer 23

Reveal connections outside the family.

Question 24

Index Person

Answer 24

Person with health concerns.