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Family Health Nursing

Family is defined as a group of individuals who rely on each other for support, traditionally characterized by legal relationships such as blood ties or marriage. The functions of family include socialization, economic cooperation, care, and cultural transmission, while healthy families exhibit good communication, support, and trust. Family health nursing focuses on the well-being of the family unit and individual members, incorporating holistic care and addressing health needs through assessment, planning, and intervention.

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Family Health Nursing

Family is defined as a group of individuals who rely on each other for support, traditionally characterized by legal relationships such as blood ties or marriage. The functions of family include socialization, economic cooperation, care, and cultural transmission, while healthy families exhibit good communication, support, and trust. Family health nursing focuses on the well-being of the family unit and individual members, incorporating holistic care and addressing health needs through assessment, planning, and intervention.

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DEFINITION OF FAMILY:

 Family refers to two or more individuals who depend on one


another for emotional, physical, and/ or financial support.

 Family has traditionally been defined using the legal notions


of relationships such as biological /genetic blood ties,
adoption, guardian, or marriage.
Maclver and Page:
Family makes definite provision for sex relation
and child rearing.
Lucy Mayer:
Family is a household group in which parents
and children live together; in original form of
couple and their offspring.
Summer and Keller :
Family is a microscopic social organization in
which atleast two generation are included and
which is formed by specific blood relations.
FUNCTION OF FAMILY

 Socialization of children

 Economic cooperation & division of labor

 Care, supervision, monitoring, and interaction

 sexual relations

 Reproduction

 Provision of status:

Affection, emotional support & companionship

 Passing along the culture, including religious faith, is an important


function for families.
FAMILY STRUCTURE

 Family structure refers to the characteristics and


demographics (age, gender, number)of individual members
who make up family units.

 More specifically, the structure of a family defines the roles


and the positions of family members.
CHARACTERISTIC OF HEALTHY FAMILIES

 The family tends to communicate well and listen to all


members.

 The family affirms and supports all of its members.

 Teach respect to others is valued by the family.

 Have a sense of trust.

 The family plays together, and humor is present


Communicating
Affirming and Supporting
Respecting Others
Trusting
Sharing Time
Fostering Responsibility
Teaching Morals
Enjoying Traditions
Sharing Religion
Respecting Privacy
Valuing Service
Getting Help
FAMILY HEALTH

 Family health is defined as a dynamic changing


relative state of well- being which includes the
biological, psychological, spiritual sociological
and cultural factors of the family system.
FAMILY AND HEALTH
 Genetic effect

 Socialization

 Personal Health

 Mental Security

 Social Security

 Broken family and health

 Emotional effect

 Illness and family


FAMILY HEALTH NURSING
Family nursing refers to nursing care that is holistically
directed toward the whole family as well as to individual
members.

Family health nursing is the practice of nursing directed


towards maximizing the health and well being of all
individuals within a family system.

It incorporates 2 views of family i.e. family as a unit of care


and family as a contact.
 FHNsg views the family as a system existing
within larger system.

 Level of intervention are the individuals, the


personal, the family system and the environmental
level.

 The goals of the family health nursing includes


optimal functioning for the individual and for the
family as a unit.
OBJECTIVE OF FAMILY HEALTH CARE
Identifies and appraises health problems of the family.

Ensures family’s understanding and acceptance of the


problem.

Provides nursing services according to health needs of the


family.

Helps to develop the competence in the members to take care


of their family as and when required and to find out remedial
measures to solve health problems….
 Contributes desired materials to personal and social
development of the family members.

 Helps to promote the utilization of available


resources to maintain all aspects of health of the
family.

 Provides health education.


PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY HEALTH CARE
 Establishing good professional relationship with the
family.

 Proper health education and guidance should be


provided to family, to take care of themselves according
to their needs, intelligently.

 Gather all relevant information about family to indentify


problems and set priorities….
 Provide need based support and services to the family to
improve their health status.

 Health care services should be provided to the family


irrespective of age, sex, income, religion etc.

 Duplication of health services should be avoided and


there is need to co-ordinate services with other disciplines
providing health service.

 Proper health messages to be communicated to family in


every contact.
FOUR APPROACHES TO FAMILY NURSING:
 FAMILY AS THE CONTEXT:
The family has a traditional focus that places the individual
first and the family second.

The family as context serves either a strength or stressor


to individual health and illness issues.

A nurse using this focus might ask an individual client.


 E.g. “ How has your diagnosis of insulin- dependent
diabetes affected your family.
 Will your need for medication at night be a problem
for your family?
FAMILY AS THE CLIENT:

 The family is the primary and individuals are


secondary.

 The family is seen as the sum of individual family


members.

 The focus is concentrated on each individual as they


affect the family as a whole.
FAMILY AS A SYSTEM:

 The focus is on the family as a client, and the family is


viewed as an interactional system in which the whole is more
than the sum of its parts.

 This approach focuses on individual members and the family


as a whole at the same time.

 The interactions among family members become the target


for nursing interventions (e.g. the interaction among both
parents and children, and between the parental hierarchy)
FAMILY AS A COMPONENT OF SOCIETY

 The family is seen as one of many institutions in society, along


with health, education, and religious and financial institutions.

 The family is a basic or primary unit of society, as are all the


other units, and they are all a part of the larger system of
society.

 The family as a whole interacts with other institutions to


receive, exchange, or give services.
FAMILY NURSING PROCESS IN FAMILY HEALTH:

 Assessment
 Nursing Diagnosis
 Planning
 Implementation
 Evaluation

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