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What are the three foundational components of family nursing? -ANSWERS-1.
Determining how the family is defined
2. Understanding the concepts of family health
3. Knowing the current evidence about the elements of a health family
Family Flexibility -ANSWERS-Olson and Gorall (2005) conducted a study and found
that the ability of the family to demonstrate flexibility is related to its ability to alter family
leadership roles, relationships, and rules, including control, discipline, and role sharing.
Functional, healthy families have the ability to change these factors in response to
situations.
What are the dominant patterns of family functioning? -ANSWERS-Balanced flexibility
and balance cohesion
Family Nursing Competences: Generalist -ANSWERS-1. Enhance and promote family
health
2. focus nursing practice on family's strengths, the support of family and individual
growth, the improvement of family self-management abilities, the facilitation of
successful life transitions, the improvement and management of health, and the
mobilization of family resources.
3. Demonstrate leadership and systems thinking skills to ensure the quality of nursing
care with families in everyday practice and across every content.
4. Practice using evidence-based practice
,What are the four views of family through a lens? -ANSWERS-Systems
Component
Context
Client
Family as Context -ANSWERS-Family centered, family focused,
The first approach to family nursing focuses on the ax and care of an individual client in
which family is context.
Traditional nursing focus, individual is foreground, family background. The family serves
as a context for the individual as either a resource or stressor to the individual health or
illness. This approach is rooted in the speciality of maternal-child nursing and underlies
the philosophy of many maternity and peds health care settings.
Family as Client -ANSWERS-The family nurse is interested in the way all family
members are individually affected by the health event of one family member. In this
approach, all members of the family are in the foreground. The family is seen as the
sum of individual family members, and the focus is concentrated on each individual. The
nurses assesses and provides healthcare for each person in the family. Typically seen
in the communities where Primary care Physicians, or NPs provide care over time to all
individuals in a given family.
Family as foreground, individual as background
Family as System -ANSWERS-The family as a whole as the client; here, the family is
viewed as an interactional system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts.
In other words, the interactions between family members become the target for the
nursing interventions. The interventions flow from the ax of the family as a whole.
Interactions between family members become the target for nursing interventions. The
interventions flow from the ax of the family as a whole. The family nursing system
approach focuses on the individual and family simultaneously. Emphasis on interactions
between family members. When something happens to to one part of the system, the
other parts of the system are affected.
Family as a Component of Society -ANSWERS-The family is viewed as one of many
institutions of society, similar to health, educational, religious, or economic institutions.
The family is a basic primary unit of society, and it is part of the larger system of society.
, Family as a whole, interacts with other institutions to receive, exchange, or give
communication and services. Family social scientist first used this approach in their
studies of families in society.
Family structure -ANSWERS-The ordered set of relationships within the family, without
respect to roles and function. Doesn't indicate how healthy a family is or how it
functions. Multitude of family forms, different family types have their strengths and
limitations, which directly or indirectly affect individual and family health.
What should the nurse identify when determining family structure? -ANSWERS-The
individual who comprise the family and the individuals in the family. The relationships
between them. The interactions between family members. The interactions with other
social systems.
Single family -ANSWERS-living alone, never married.
Nuclear dyad/childless -ANSWERS-married couple, no children
Nuclear -ANSWERS-Two generations of family, parents, and their own or adopted
children residing in the same household.
Binuclear -ANSWERS-Two post-divorce families with children as members of both
Extended/Multigenerational -ANSWERS-Two or more adult generations and one that
include grandparents and grandchildren in the same household.
Blended/Reconstituted -ANSWERS-One or more of the parents have been married
previously and they bring with the children from their previous marriage.
What is family? -ANSWERS-Family life is a universal human experience and no two
individuals have the exact same experience within a family. No universally agreed-upon
definition of family.