NCM 104 LESSON 1 MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE 2024

family - two or more individuals coming from the same or different kinship groups who are involved in a continuous living arrangement, usually residing in the same household, experiencing common emotional bonds, and sharing certain obligations toward each other and toward others. family health - a condition including the promotion and maintenance of physical, mental, spiritual, and social health for the family unit and for individual family members. family process - ongoing interaction between family members through which they accomplish their instrumental and expressive tasks. The nursing process considers the family, not the individual, as the unit of care. family centered nursing: - nursing that considers health of the family as a unit in addition to the health of individual family members. family health nursing - nursing aspect of organized family health care services which are directed or focused on family as the unit care with health as the goal. It is thus synthesis of nursing care and health care. helps to develop self care abilities of the family and promote, protect and maintain its health. Family health nursing is generalized, well balanced and integrated comprehensive and continuous are requiring comprehensive planning to accomplish its goal. goals of the family health nursing - include optimal functioning for the individual and for the family as a unit. objectives of family health nursing - to identify health & nursing needs and problems of each family. to ensure family's understanding and acceptance of these needs and problems. to plan and provide health and nursing services with the active participation of family members. to help families develop abilities to deal with their health needs and health problems independently. to contribute to family's performance of developmental functions and tasks. to help family make intelligent use of promotive, preventive, therapeutic and rehabilitative health and allied facilities and services in the community. to educate, counsel and guide family members to cultivate good personal health habits, practice safe cultural practices and maintain wholesome physical, psychosocial, and spiritual environment. principles of family health nursing - 1. provide services without discrimination 2. periodic and continuous appraisal and evaluation of family health situation 3. proper maintenance of record and reports. 4. provide continuous services 5. health education, guidance and supervision as integral part of family health nursing. 6. maintain good IPR 7. plan and provide family health nursing with active participation of family. 8. services should be realistic in terms of resources available. 9. encourage family to contribute towards community health. 10. active participation in making health care delivery system. advantages of family health nursing - family health nursing of patients saves hospital beds that can be utilized for critical cases. family health nursing is cheaper than hospital nursing. patient under family health nursing enjoys privacy and emotional support. patients on family health nursing can continue with their routine pursuits. if the patient resides in a sanitary house, family health nursing is better than hospital nursing since he can control inimical environmental influences better. disadvantages of family health nursing - family health nursing requires the nurse to carry portable laboratory machinery to the patent's home. if the patient resides in a substandard house, family health nursing could delay his recovery. the four approaches included in the family health nursing care views are: - family as the context family as the client family as a system family as a component of society family as the context - when the nurse views the family as context, the primary focus is on the health and development of an individual member existing within a specific environment (i.e., the client's family).Although the nurse focuses the nursing process on the individual's health status, the nurse also assesses the extent to which the family provides the individual's basic needs. family as the client - family is the foreground and individuals are in the background. The family is seems as the sum of individuals family members. The focus is concentrated on each and every individual as they affect the whole family. family as a system - focus is on the family as a client and it is viewed as an international system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts. This approach focuses on the individual and family members become the target for nursing interventions.