Family Health 2
Family Health 2
Family Health 2
• Goals:
“ Include optimal functioning for the individual and for
the family as a unit.”
General Principles of Family Health Nursing
1) Family health nursing is family focused
A good working relationship helps the nurse and the family knows
each other and work together to plan, implement and evaluate
family health and nursing care. Thus it helps in achieving family
health goals and objectives. Working relationship is developed by
knowing the family, giving due respect in culturally acceptable ways,
listening to them, communicating intentions to help and the nature
of help that can be extended.
3) Family health nursing is part of family health care
services and based on identified family health and nursing
needs.
• The home health nurse assesses not only the health care demand
of the client and family but also the home and community
environment.
• Assessment actually begins when the nurse contacts the client for
the initial home visit and reviews documents received from the
referral agency.
• The goal of the initial visit is to obtain a comprehensive clinical
picture of the client’s need.
• Diagnosis (of client response needs that nurse can deal with)
• As in other care environments, the nurse identifies both actual and
potential client problems.
Examples of common nursing diagnoses for home care include:
- Deficient Knowledge,
- Impaired Home Maintenance, and
- Risks for caregiver Role strain.
• Planning (of client’s care)
• During the planning phase the nurse needs to encourage and permit client’s
to make their own health management decisions.
• Alternatives may need to be suggested for some decisions if the nurse
identifies potential harm from a chosen course of action.
• Strategies to meet the goals generally include:
- teaching the client family techniques of care and
- identifying appropriate resources to assist the client and family maintaining
self-sufficiency.
• Implementation (of care)
•These are essential components or elements to find out the facts from
families and making correct decisions. A working relationship must have
scope of two way communication.
• The family members must be given equal opportunity to give their views
and ideas and express the feelings and vice versa. The nurse must have
enough interactions with family members to guide and help them to solve
the problem.
• 2. Assessment of Health Needs
• Assessment is a continuous process which becomes
more accurate as knowledge of people deepens.
Data Collection:
• Gathering of five types of data which will generate the categories
of health conditions or problems of the family
- includes current and past significant illness; beliefs and practices conducive to
health and illness; nutritional and developmental status; physical assessment
findings and significant results of laboratory/diagnostic tests/screening
procedures.