CHN (Week 4 - Family Health Nursing)

National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB 2008)

“The family is a group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons related to the head by blood, marriage, or adoption.”

Johnson 2000

“The family is a social unit interacting with e larger society.”

Allen et al., 2000

“A family is characterized by people together because of birth, marriage, adoption or choice.”

Freidman et al., 2003

“A family is a two or more persons who are joined together by bonds of sharing and emotional closeness and who identify themselves as being part of the family.”

Nuclear Family

Composed of husband, wife, and their immediate children- natural, adopted or both.

Dyad Family

Composed of husband and wife.

Extended Family

Consist of three generations - married sibling, or grandparents.

Blended Family

Consist of one or both spouses brings a child or children from previous marriage into one living arrangement

Compound Family

Where a man has more than one spouse.

Cohabiting Family

Live-in arrangement between an unmarried couple.

Single Parents

Results from a death of spouse, separation or pregnancy outside of wedlock.

The Gay or Lesbian Family

Cohabiting couple of the same sex.

Procreation

Despite the changing forms of the family, it has remained the universally accepted institution for reproductive functions and child rearing.

Socialization of Family Members

It is the process of learning how to become productive members of society. It involves transmission of the culture of a social group.

Status Placement

Society is characterized by a hierarchy of its members into social classes. The family confers it’s societal rank on the children. Depending on the degree of social mobility in a society, the family and the children’s future families may move from one social class to another.

Economic Function

Consist of Rural Family and Urban Familu.

Physical Maintenance

The family provides for the survival need (food, shelter, and clothing) of its dependent members, like young children and the aged.

Welfare and Protection

The family supports spouses or partners by providing for companionship and meeting affective, sexual, and socioeconomic needs. By developing a sense of love and belonging, the family gives the children emotional gratification and psychological security.

Family as a Client

Community health nursing has long viewed the family as an important unit of health care, with awareness that the individual can be best understood within the social context of the family.

Rural Family

It is a unit of production where the whole family works as a team participating in farming, fishing, or cottage industries.

Urban Family

It is more of a unit of consumption where economically productive members work separately to earn salaries or wages.

General System Theory

It is way to explain how the family as a unit interacts with larger units outside the family and with smaller units inside the family.

Family Health Tasks

It is providing its members with means for health promotion and disease prevention.

Breastfeeding an infant, a healthy diet for older family members, bringing a young child to the health center for immunizations, and teaching a child about proper handwashing are a few examples of this.

Paggalang (Respect)

It means to be respectful or to give respect to a person. Filipinos are accustomed to using the words “po,” “opo,” and “ho” when they are conversing with older people or, sometimes, with those who are in a high role or a prestigious member of society. Using these words is customary in the Philippines, and it shows a sign of respect if you do so.

Paggalangcan

It also be shown toward your elders by kissing their hands before leaving/to say goodbye and upon arrival/to greet them.

Pakikisama (Helping Others)

It has the connotation of getting along with people in general.

Utang na Loob (Debt of Gratitude)

It means to pay your debt with gratitude. With this, there is usually a system of obligation. When this value is applied, it imparts a sense of duty and responsibility on the younger siblings to serve and repay the favors done to them by their elders.

Pagpapahalaga sa Pamilya (Prioritizing Family)

This implies that a person will place a high regard on their family and prioritize that before anything else.

Hiya (Shame)

This controls the social behaviors and interactions of a Filipino. It is the value that drives a Filipino be obedient and respectful to their parents, older siblings, and other authorities.

Hilot

one of the practices of Filipino traditional medicine, thought of as ‘healing’. It makes use of the most popular and useful herbs: tanglad, lagundi, sambong and more native plants that have healing and therapeutic properties.

Comadrona

Expert in post-natal massage.

Acupressurist

Aligns nerves and balances electrical energy.

Reflexologist

Drains excess energy.

Herbalist

Uses herbal in healing.

Cupping Theraphy

a form of alternative medication that uses “cups” on the skin to create suction.