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the care provided by a community health nurse is focused on - ️️the community as a client the 3 primary functions of a public health nurse are -️️assessment, assurance and policy development example of assessment -️️collecting data assurance - ️️making sure you can deliver what...

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Family Unit - ✔️✔️Success or failure of individuals in society is dependent upon stability of the:



The two purposes of the family are: - ✔️✔️1. Meeting the needs of society

2. Meeting the needs of the individuals in the family



Healthy families exhibit the following characteristics: (Beaver and Hampton) - ✔️✔️Effective skills
for negotiating problems

Are clear, open and spontaneous in expressing emotions and decisions

Respect the feelings of others

Encourage others to be independent

Hold others personally accountable for their actions

Display warmth and closeness toward each other



Stage 1 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction - ✔️✔️Family Efforts at Health Promotion-Many
lifestyles that affect health are learned in the family. Tobacco use is an example of this. Health
promotion, prevention, and risk reduction are impacted by families.



Three causal relationships that can alter family health status include - ✔️✔️marriage

parenthood

social support systems



Stage 2 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction - ✔️✔️Family Appraisal of Symptoms-This stage
begins when a family member has symptoms



Stage 3 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction - ✔️✔️Care Seeking-A decision is made to seek
medical care. Family members are consulted as needed for advice and recommendations, which may
include on home remedies and self-medication



Stage 4 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction - ✔️✔️Referral and Obtaining Care-Contact with a
health care provider is initiated. This can be based upon the severity of the patient's condition,
family's culture, health beliefs, availability, and accessibility.

,Stage 5 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction - ✔️✔️Acute Response to Illness by Client and
Family-The patient takes on the "sick role" and adaptation in this role begins with the patient and
family.



Stage 6 of Health/Illness and Family Interaction - ✔️✔️adaptation to Illness and Recovery- Support
of the patient by the family unit begins for convalescing and rehabilitating. Coping and adaptation
about the illness begins at this stage.



Family as Context - ✔️✔️The patient is an individual with family members who are usually the
primary resource for them. The individual is the primary receiver and the family is secondary for
assessment and intervention of care.



Family as Sum of its Members - ✔️✔️The family is a sum of all family members. Family healthcare is
operational when all members of the family receive care.



Family Subsystems as Client - ✔️✔️The subsystem of a family can be defined as a dyad or triad and
be comprised of a married couple, parent-child, and sibling-sibling, for example. They are the
recipients of care.



Family as Client - ✔️✔️The entire family is in the foreground. Dynamics of the family, subsystems,
and relationships with external sources are the focus.



Family as a Component of Society - ✔️✔️The family is a subsystem of society. Families are
considered an institution of society equating to religion and educational institutions for example.



Primary Prevention - ✔️✔️Prevent the occurrence of disease.

Health promotion and disease prevention

Teach families to take responsibility for health and attain health goals by enjoying a healthy lifestyle



Secondary Prevention - ✔️✔️After the disease occurrence

Early detection, diagnosis, treatment of signs and symptoms

Conduct screening assessments

Health teaching

, Tertiary Prevention - ✔️✔️Recovery and rehabilitation

Maximize the level of functioning

Provide support to families in the rehabilitation process



Nightingale's Environmental Model - ✔️✔️Did not present a theory of nursing or family nursing

Emphasized the presence of environmental factors in health and wellness

Nurses care for the whole family unit in the home environment



King's Theory of Goal Attainment - ✔️✔️included family-as-context

Collaboratively the nurse and family members identify complete assessment to determine goals and
a plan of care

The family unit provides socialization and establishes norms of behavior across the life cycle.



Roy's Adaptation Model - ✔️✔️Family is a unit of analysis, in the same context as the individual

The family unit is adaptive and interacts with the external environment and internal and external
stimuli



Neumann's Health System's Model - ✔️✔️The client is an open system where family is defined.
Family is comprised of subsystems with relationships among the family members

The ability to maintain wellness when exposed to stressors occurs through a series of exchanges in
the open system of the model

Appropriate model for community-based health care



Orem's Self-Care Model - ✔️✔️The family unit needs to sustain self-care

Nursing works with individuals to achieve self-care in the family unit; the family unit is not the direct
receiver of the health care services.

Self-care of the family can incorporate health beliefs of the family



Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings - ✔️✔️A family has energy fields that respond to the
environment similar to individuals.

Families have stages of development and progress in one direction

Permeability of boundaries determines the degree of responsiveness required from environmental
input

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