NUR 3737C: MODULE 8 EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS |
VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+ LATEST 2024
Family-centered nursing practice
Focuses on empowering families to use existing skills and resources,
removing or reducing barriers to health care, and helping where family
skills are lacking.
Nurses provide a listening and nurturing environment for families to
thrive.
Stages of Caregiving
Awareness
Responsibility
Care demands
End-of-life and bereavement
Stages of Caregiving: Awareness
Includes recognition and increasing mindfulness of the family's needs,
changes in health, and/or behavioral changes that signal the need for
some level of caregiving.
Stages of Caregiving: Responsibility
,When children become family caregivers there may be role ambiguity, a
redefining of their relationships and roles with the care recipient and
other family members.
Health providers have the responsibility of assessing, understanding, and
providing care based on family needs.
Stages of Caregiving: Care Demands
Early tasks may involve monitoring clinical symptoms and medications,
managing household tasks, communicating with health professionals,
and providing emotional support to the family member.
Tasks can expand, over time
Stages of Caregiving: End of life and Bereavement
Involve repeat hospitalizations, nursing home care, and possibility of
aging/dying in place.
Palliative treatment may be necessary, and the burden of caregiving
demands may add significant stress on the family unit.
Nursing Responsibilities Family-Centered Approach
The need for information - be an educator
The need for reassurance and support - be a considerate communicator
The need for family closeness and involvement - empower the family as
care partners
,Ecological model
Proposes that the determinants of health (environmental, biological, and
behavioral) interact and are interlinked over the life course of
individuals.
Ecological Model: Society
Includes societal norms and beliefs and health care-related policies. This
includes federal, state, and local health care policies, cultural beliefs, and
mores.
Ecological Model: Community
Assists the family with community-based resources. These resources
include community health resources, conducive community
environment, and referral systems.
Ecological Model: Family
Includes family form and dynamics. These resources cover family
dynamics and behaviors, family support systems, family form, and
environment.
Ecological Model: Interpersonal
Begins by understanding individual dynamics. This includes knowledge,
skills, behaviors, practices, and education.
Roles in Family Caregiving: Nursing Roles
Provide a nurturing and listening environment.
Assess family and individual dynamics (openness, communication,
flexibility, self-efficacy) and caregiver experience to determine family
needs.
, Maintain open communication with all family members.
Develop a plan, with family members, to assist family needs.
Determine family's skills (self-efficacy) and understanding of health care
needs.
Provide education and practical services
Roles in Family Caregiving: Family Members' Roles
Provide open communication between family members and care
providers.
Participate in health care discussions to assist in decision-making.
Share joys and disappointments to facilitate open discussion.
Question what is not understood.
Health promotion and wellness incorporates four focal points for nursing
in family care that include:
Patient advocacy
Enabling the family to be partners in care
Open communication, increased self-efficacy, and a nurturing
environment