Module 5: Relational practice across the lifespan

Question 1

what is family -centered care?

Answer 1

the professional support of the child and the family through the process of involvement, participation, partnership and underpinned by empowerment and negogiation

Question 2

Stuart & Melling state that FCC is?

Answer 2

• involves collaboration of nurse and families in the care of child
• helps maintain a sense of normality and continuity for client and family
• has to be negotiated seperatly for each admission

Question 3

attributes of family centered care

Answer 3

• respect and dignity
• information and sharing
• participation
• collaboraition

Question 4

Piagets descriptions of stages of cognitive development provide valuable contriubtuion toward

Answer 4

understanding the dimensions of a child’s perceptions and communication abilities

Question 5

piagets stages of cognitive development

Answer 5

Birth - 2 yrs: Sensimotor,
Characteristics: infant learns by manipulating objects. At birth reflexive communication, then moves through six stages to reach actual thinking
Language dev:communication largely non-verbal. vocab of more than 4 words by 12 month increases, increases to > than 200 words and use of short sentences before age 2 yrs

2-6yrs: Preoperational
Characteristics: beginning use of symbolic thinking . imaginative play. masters reversibility

7-11yrs: Concrete operations
Characteristics: logical thinking, masters use of numbers and other concrete ideas such as classification and conversation

12+ years: Formal operations
Characteristics: abstract thinking, futaristc, takes a broader more theoretical perspective

Question 6

sensimotor

Answer 6

0-2 yrs: learning through object manipulation

Question 7

preoperational

Answer 7

2-7: symbolic thinking, imaginative play, masters reversibility

Question 8

concrete operations

Answer 8

7-11 yrs logical thinking, masters numbers classification and conservation

Question 9

Formal operations

Answer 9

12 + abstract thinking, futuristic broad theoretical perspective

Question 10

mutuality in decision making

Answer 10

Children of this age need to be involved in discussions of their illness and in planning for their care
Involving the child in decision making may decrease fears about the illness or the treatment

Question 11

what is validation

Answer 11

• validation is the way one person says to another: i get what you are saying
• to validate is to simply acknowledge and accept another persons thoughts, feelings, sensations and behaviours as understandable for the person at that time