Typology Flashcards
- “the study or systematic classification of types.”
- “A tool or classification of a family nursing problem that reflects the family status and capabilities as a functioning unit.”
Typology of Nursing Practice
stated as potential or readiness – a clinical or nursing judgment about a client in transition from a specific level of wellness. or capability to a higher level
Presence of Wellness condition
a nursing judgment on wellness state or condition based on client’s performance, current competencies, or performance, clinical data or explicit expression of desire to achieve a higher level of state or function in a specific area on health promotion and maintenance
Wellness potential
instances of failure in health maintenance
Health Deficits
conditions that are conducive to disease and accident, or may result to failure to maintain wellness or realize health potential
Health Threats
anticipated periods of unusual demand on the individual or family in terms of adjustment/family resource
Stress points/Foreseeable crisis situations
What do you assess in the First Level of Assessment
- Presence of Wellness
- Presence of health deficit, health threats, and foreseeable crisis/ stress points in the family
What do you assess in the Second Level of Assessment
- Inability to recognize presence of problem or condition
- Inability to make decisions with respect to taking appropriate health action
- Inability to provide adequate nursing care to the sick, disabled, dependent or vulnerable/at risk member of the family
- Inability to provide a home environment conducive to health maintenance and personal development
- Failure to utilize community resources for health care
Denial about its existence or severity as a result of fear of consequences of
diagnosis of problem, specifically:
- Social-stigma, loss of respect
of peer/significant others - Economic/cost implication
- Physical consequences
- Emotional/psychological
issues/concerns
Fear of consequences of action, specifically:
- Social consequences
- Economic consequences
- Physical consequences
- Emotional/psychological
consequences
In accessibility of appropriate resources for care, specifically:
- Physical Inaccessibility
- Costs constraints or economic/financial
inaccessibility
Inadequate family resources of care specifically:
○ Absence of responsible member
○ Financial constraints
○ Limitation of luck/lack of physical
resources
Altered role performance, specify:
○ Role denials or ambivalence
○ Role strain
○ Role dissatisfaction
○ Role Conflict
○ Role Confusion
○ Role overload
Two parts of Nursing Diagnosis
General and Specific
the statement of the unhealthful response
General
the statement of factors which are maintaining the undesirable response and preventing the desired change
Specific
the set of actions the nurse decides to implement to be able to resolve identified family health and nursing problem
Family Nursing Care Plan
List the characteristics of the family nursing care plan
● The nursing care plan focuses on actions which are designed to solve or minimize existing problem.
● The nursing care plan is a product of deliberate systematic process.
● The nursing care plan, as with all other plans, relates to the future.
● The nursing care plan is based upon identified health and nursing problems.
● The nursing care is a means to an end, not an end in itself.
● Nursing care plan is a continuous process not a one-shot deal
Desirable Qualities a Nursing Care Plan
● It should be based on a clear definition of the problems.
● A good plan is realistic.
● The nursing care plan should be consistent
with the goals and philosophy of the health
agency.
● The nursing care plan is drawn with the family.
● The nursing care plan is best kept in a written
for
Four Criteria for Determining Priorities
-Nature of condition or problem
-Modifiability of the Problem
-Preventive Potential
-Salience
Categorized into wellness state/
potential, health threat, health deficit of foreseeable crisis.
Which of the Four Criteria
Nature of condition or problem
Refers to the probability of success in minimizing, alleviation or totally eradicating the problem through nursing intervention
Which of the Four Criteria
Modifiability of the Problem
Refers to the nature and magnitude of
future problems that can be minimized or totally prevented if intervention is done on the problem under consideration
Which of the Future Criteria
Preventive Potential
Refers to the family’s perception and evaluation of the problem in terms of seriousness an urgency attention needed
Which of the Four Criteria
Salience
What is the weight of Nature of condition or problem
1
What is the weight of Modifiability of the Problem
2
