LEC 6: Family Nursing Theoretical Perspectives

Question 1

What are the four principles of client and family centred care?

Answer 1

• Respect and dignity
• Information sharing
• Collaboration
• Participation

Question 2

What are the 4 steps to the engagment continuum?

Answer 2

1. Inform
2. Consult
3. Involve
4. Collaborate

• As patient and family power is going up, nursing power is going down and have less control (what we want)
• Need to be able to manupulate the knoweledge and let it go to the patient
  
  • Patient needs to understand so that they can have the pwoer and advocate for themselves

Question 3

Engagement Continuum: Inform​

Answer 3

We will keep the client/family informed.

Question 4

Engagement Continuum: Consult

Answer 4

We will keep the client/family informed, listen, and provide feedback on how their input affected decisions.

Question 5

Engagement Continuum: Involve

Answer 5

We will partner with the client/family to understand and consider their perspective and include them in developing approaches.

Question 6

Engagement Continuum: Collaborate

Answer 6

We will partner with the client/family in decision making, including identifying alternatives and preferred solutions.

Question 7

What are the 4 family assessment tools?

Answer 7

1. Genogram: structure
2. CFAM functional: function
3. Ecomap: Resources
4. CFAM: developmental and life cycle: development

Question 8

What are the goals of theory utilization?

Answer 8

• Describe
• Explain
• Predict

Question 9

How do theories help nurses?

Answer 9

• Increase our knowledge
• Enhance our understanding
• Improve our nursing care

Question 10

How do theories improve our nursing care?

Answer 10

• Guide nursing practice by giving us a perspective on situations we encounter in practice.
• Help us have basis for nursing assessment and nursing interventions.
• Theories help us characterize, explain, and predict- provides a common language.

Question 11

How do family nursing theores help nursing?

Answer 11

• Help us to understand families
• Help us to describe and plan for a family
• Help us to study and evaluate the impact of nursing care

Question 12

What are some family social theories?

Answer 12

• CFAM theoretical foundations
• McGill model of nursing
  
  • Stengths-based nursing care
• Family resilience
• Develipmental and family life cycle

Question 13

Theoretical Pluralism

Answer 13

The selection and use of multiple theories for practice in accordance with the demands of the situation.

Question 14

Family Nursing’s Theoretical Perspectives

Answer 14

• Exploring structure, function, and development
• Family systems theory
• Developmental and family life cycle theory
• Strengths and resiliency