Nursing Care of the Family

Question 1

Importance of identifying different family types

Answer 1

-Not all families are the same
-Definition is different for everyone
- Fundamental Aspect
-Families can change

Question 2

Health concerns for various stages of family development

Answer 2

-Stress of newly formed family> poor coping skills
-Financial troubles/stressors
-Trouble agreeing
-Relationships suffer
-Safety/loneliness
-Midlife crisis> divorce?
-Redefining life without working

Question 3

General Systems Theory

Answer 3

-Based on interactions among family members
-Interaction can cause changes in family structure and function and can affect health
- Illness and stressors can cause an imbalance in the family structure

Question 4

Structural-Functional Theory

Answer 4

-Family as a social system
- Focuses on the outcomes of interaction
-Freud and Erikson’s Developmental Theories

Question 5

Developmental Theory

Answer 5

-8 Stages of development
-Focuses on the growing family with children’s ages and stages
-Important for families w/o children> need a spouse instead of a child

Question 6

Role of RN in family nursing

Answer 6

-Help implement interventions
-Support through challenges
-Find potential risk factors
-Focus on individual and family wellness & interventions
-Understand family implications on health and engage them in decisions and interventions

Question 7

Main components of holistic family assessments

Answer 7

-Who answered questions who didn’t
-Who making decisions
-Power radiant> head of the family
-How they interact with each other
-Body language> visual ques
-Identifying information