Week 5 Nursing Care and Families

Importance of family in health promotion

family is the primary context in which health behaviours are learned, practiced, reinforced

What is family health?

Refers to how well the family functions, particularly in terms of coping, communication, and adaptability

Nursing role in family health promotion

• Partner with families rather than directing care

• Respect family structure, culture, values, and beliefs

• Encourage family participation in care

Developmental perspective of family theories

• Families move through predictable stages

• Each stage has developmental tasks that have to be achieved

Structural-functional perspective of family theories

• Focuses on family structure (roles, organization) and family functions

• Health issues arise when family functions are developed

Risk-factor perspective of family theories

• identifies risks related to biological and age-related factors, environmental conditions, behavioural patterns

• understanding that risks change as family progresses through stages

systems family thoery

• family is an interdependent system

• change in one member affects the whoel family

how should assessment be done with the family?

• conducted collaboratively

• occurs in the home

• focuses on strengths, risks, developmental tasks

examples of interventions to be implemented with families

• increasing knowledge and skills (health teaching)

• strengthening family resources

• reducing exposure to risks

• decreasing susceptibility to illness