Unit 1 Nursing Care of Families Flashcards
Define “Family”
1) Two or more people who share resources and provide physical, emotional, or spiritual support to each other.
How are families related?
They may be related biologically, legally, and/or emotionally.
What is the primary purpose of a family?
Ensure survival and person fulfillment of each member.
What is family bonding strengthened by?
Attachment and commitment
What is the family’s role in society?
1) Civilization’s oldest and most basic social unit
2) Foster customs, knowledge, values and beliefs.
What is a “family of origin”?
Family that raised the individual
What is a “Family of choice”?
Family adopted through marriage or cohabitation.
Define nuclear family
Consists of a husband, wife, and their children.
Define extended family.
Grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins living under the same roof.
What is a single partent family?
One adult w/ one or more children.
Define a blended/reconstituted family.
one or both parents w/ children from a previous relationship.
What family unit consists of an unmarried couple living together?
Cohabitiative
What is a communal family?
(AKA intentional community)
Group w/ common values who live together and share roles and resources.
Define a LGBTQ+ family.
Any of the above family types w/ an adult who identifies w/ LGBTQ+ community. Same sex partners, w/ or without children.
What type of family unit is made up by temporary or permanently adding children w/ no biological ties to the family.
Foster or adoptive
Define multi-cultural family.
2 or more cultures, races or ethnicities in the same family.
What conflicts might a multi-cultural family experience?
1) Religious conflicts
2) Difficulty agreeing where to live.
3) Prejudice from their community.
How might a family minimize the effects of a prejudice community?
By fostering positive feelings about one’s heritage.
What makes a multi-cultural family well-adapted?
- Experience enriched environments
1) Food
2) Travel
3) Holidays
4) Music
5) Dress - Embrace diversity
- Respect others’ values and beliefs
Associated w/ families: What is expected from “physical sustenance”?
1) Providing food, clothing, shelter.
2) Economic stability or assistance from community sources aid in this.
What does a family protection you from?
1) Harm or injury (external forces).
- Discipline, role modeling, safety awareness.
2) Inherited or acquired illness (internal forces).
- Diet, exercise, immunization, health screening, genetic screening.
How does a family give nurturance/emotional support.
1) The family provides loving care and attention w/ unconditional acceptance.
2) Setting boundaries help a child feel more secure.
3) Early parent-child relationships affect emotional adjustment throughout life.
Health care workers must recognize the pt as a part of a family unit. This requires that nurses be familiar w/ the meanings of today’s family which is?
- Functions
- Types
- Stages
- Sizes
- Patterns
- Cultural issues
What goal is common to all families?
Monetary success
What is an advantage of early parenting?
More energy and fewer potential health problems
What is a characteristic of functional families?
The ability to foster growth and development
What is the primary socializing agent for children?
Family
The nurse advocates for secondary prevention of family violence by providing what?
Rehabilitation and education
To clarify the roles of members within a family, what question is best for a nurse to ask?
“Whom do you go to n the family when you need someone to talk to?”
True or False:
In the formal grandparenting role, discipline of the child is left to the parent.
True
The community health nurse is working w/ a family after one of its members experiences a major health crisis. The nurse records which signs of a health family?
1) There is frequent communication between the family members.
2) The family states they have plans to share caregiving.
The nurse is assigned to a new pt and learns that she and her family are recent immigrants to this country. In caring for the pt, how can the nurse best help the pt assimilate to her new environment?
Being culturally sensitive
What order may influence a child’s development?
Birth
Family violence exists in all social groups. Primary prevention is aimed at reducing the risk through what?
1) Teaching parenting skills
2) Rehabilitation after the abuse has occurred
Family function and socialization is where a kid learns what 3 things about socialization?
1) The rules of society
2) Communication
3) Acceptable behavior
When a family socializes, it teaches kids how to make meaningful what?
Connections w/ others
Where does education of children begin?
In the home
Family chooses what other institutions will help educate kids. What are some of these institutions?
1) Schools
2) Church
3) Community organizations (scouts/media).