LEC 3: Family Nursing Interviews Flashcards
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Family Nursing Interviews
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- Where, when, how, and why?
- Reflect on your personal beliefs, professional experience, and relationships
- Concepts that you use (PRAXIS) post modernism, systems theory, empowerment, engagment, strenghts, and resiliency based
- Families possess the ability to solve their own problems and/ordiminish their suffering but often lack the confidence of belief in their strengths due to the oppression felt by families that often follows when illness arises
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What are some considerations to think of when interviewing families?
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- Maxamize your time-effectivness
- Strengths and problem focused
- Multiple realitites, openness to differences, diversity
- Skills and competencies need time to be developed (labs, clinical setting writing)
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What are the 3 skills required of nurses for family interviewing?
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- Perceptual skills
- Conceptual skills
- Executive skills
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What are the 4 stages of family nursing interviews?
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- Engagment
- Assessment
- Intervention
- Termination
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Stages of Family Nursing: Engagement
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- Invite all family memebrs who are concerned or involved to attend (especially important to involve both parents)
- Explain the purpose, length, and structure of the interview
- Start with introductions and structural assessment
- Adress all attendees (including children)
- Provide structure
- Bring relevant resources
- Context of change
- Cultural sensitivity
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What is the purpose of engagement?
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- To promote a positve nurse-family relationship
- To establish a therapeutic rapport
- To recognize the unique and resources that each family member brings to this relationship
- To prevent future practitioner-family misunderstandings
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Stages of family Nursing: Assessment
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- Explore the compnents of the CFAM to assess strengths and problem areas
- Only assess the relevant aspects
- Ask each family member to share their understanding of the presenting concern/issue/suffering
- Inquire about differences between individuals experiences
- Obtain verification of your understanding of strengths/problems, seek opinions about the most important issues
- Obtain their commitment to work on the problem; know your limits
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What is the purpose of an assessment?
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- Problem identification
- Explore presenting concerns/issues/suffering
- Creation of nursing diagnoses
- Relationship between family interactions and their issue
- Nurse explores how the health issue is affecting family life and relationships
- Attempted solution
- Exploration on solutions that have been attempted and their effects on the issue
- Goal exploration
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Assessment: Structural Assessment
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- Internal structure
- Who is in the family, how are they conncected?
- External structure
- How is the family connected to outside members
- Context
- Relevant background information
- Tools
- Genogram and ecomaps
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Assessment: Developmental
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- Stages of development (phases)
- leaving home, marriage, young children, adolescents, later life
- Tasks associated with the developmental phase
- Refocus on midlife marital/carreer issues
- Attachments between family members
- Parents maintain marital bond and continue personal/adult conversations and child-centred
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Assessment: Functional
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- Instrumental functioning
- Routine activites/ ADLs
- Expressive functioning
- Communication
- Problem solving
- Roles
- Influence/power
- Beliefs
- Alliances/coalitions
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Assessment: Nursing Diagnoses Formulated from Patterns of Related Cues
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- You assess to gather some insight about the family
- The data supports the conclusions/insights/opportunites
- The faiagnosis targets a domain of functioning (CAB)
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What are the types of diagnoses?
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- Actual nursing diagnoses
- Problem exists, assessment data shows this, description supports conclusion
- Risk nursing diagnoses
- Not yet existing, data shows risk of developing
- Wellness diagnoses
- Client desires to attain a higher level of wellness
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Stages of Family Nursing: Interventions
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- Encourage family memebrs to explore possible solutions
- Plan cognitive, affective, and behavioural interventions
- Provide information
- Validate their emotional responses
- Assign tasks or build skills aimed at improving family functioning
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What is the purpose of interventions?
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- Validate emotional responses
- Offer commedations
- Something that is helpful, authentic, and real
- Foster and support family functioning