Family Nurse Contact

Establish professional relationship with the family

Principle of Family Health Nursing

1

Help the family to help themselves and

provide guidance to the family to identify health needs

Principle of Family Health Nursing

2

Collect Correct information

Principle of Family Health Nursing

3

Identify problems and set priorities

Principle of Family Health Nursing

4

provide need-based support to the family 

Principle of Family Health Nursing

5

Each member must be given health care irrespective of

Sex | age | earning capacity | head of the family 

Principle of Family Health Nursing

6

Care of the family provided by different health agencies need to be coordinated

Principle of Family Health Nursing

7

Provide services which are preventive in nature

Principle of Family Health Nursing

8

In every contact, communicate health messages important for them to know and practice 

Principle of Family Health Nursing

9

To discover and appraise health needs and problems through combining public health nursing efforts with those of other professional workers, of the family and of the community

Objectives of Family Health Care 1

To _________ health needs and problems through _________ with those of other_______ of the family and of the community

To ensure family understanding and acceptance of problems

Objectives of Family Health Care

2

provide secure nursing services that the family needs and cannot provide itself 

Objectives of Family Health Care

3

provide emotional support in time of stress

Objectives of Family Health Care

4

Develop the competence of the I&F to cope with their own problems

Objectives of Family Health Care

5

contribute to personal and social development of IF through health activities

Objectives of Family Health Care

6

Opportunities to help with agency activities may engender a deeper sense of civic responsibility

Objectives of Family Health Care

7

ensure such modification in the environment as one within nursing influence, so as to promote safety and to use the environment as the therapeutic measure

Objectives of Family Health Care

8

To bring to families an understanding of non-nursing health services, within or outside the agency where the nurse is working, and to provide the families with the necessary information and encouragement to use resources wisely and fully

Objectives of Family Health Care 9

To bring to families an _____________, within or outside the agency where the nurse is working, and to provide the families with the______________

Family Nurse Contact 

A relationship between a nurse and the client/family established according to the purpose or situation at hand

telephone contact

written communication

industrial clinic visit

group contact

school clinic visit

home visit

clinic visit

What are the types of Family Nurse Contact

Clinic Visit 

Client visits the health clinic to inquire or to seek health care consultation, check-ups, treatments or to address any health problem

Industrial Clinic Visit

A clinic providing health services to employees and/or dependents of employees of a particular company or a group of affiliated companies

School Clinic Visit 

made to assess the health of the students

Telephone Contact 

Takes place between patients and clinicians via communications technology

Group Contact 

Provides an oppurtunity for initial contact between the nurse and target families of the community which may take place at home, clinic,school or workplace

Written Communication

a method of communication done by writing something and passed to others. There may or may not be two way communication