Family and Gender Sensitivity in Nursing

This set of flashcards covers definitions, family structures, legal perspectives, nursing assessment tools, and intervention strategies based on the comprehensive family health nursing lecture.

Family (National Statistical Coordination Board, 2008)

A group of persons usually living together and composed of the head and other persons related to the head by blood, marriage, or adoption.

Family (Johnson, 2000)

A social unit interacting with the larger society.

Family (Murdock)

A social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction, including adults of both sexes with a socially approved sexual relationship and one or more children.

Family (Lasch)

A haven in a heartless world.

Family (Burgess)

A unity of interacting personalities.

Family forms

The physical makeup of the family members in relationship to each other without respect to roles and function.

Family structure

The composition, membership, and organization of relationships among family members, organized according to roles, rule, power, and hierarchies.

Family nursing

A specialty concerned with understanding people’s experiences of health and illness within their family, collaborating with the family as the patient.

Gender

Social and cultural differences between male and female sexes rather than biological ones.

Sex

The division of humans and living things based on their perspective function (male or female).

Gender awareness

The knowledge and understanding of the differences in roles and relations between women and men.

Gender role

Role or behavior learned by a person as appropriate to their gender, determined by prevailing culture or norms.

Nuclear family

The family of marriage, parenthood, or procreation composed of a husband, wife, and their immediate natural or adopted children.

Dyad family

A family consisting only of husband and wife, such as newly married couples and empty nesters.

Extended family

A family consisting of three generations, which may include married siblings, their families, and/or grandparents.

Compound family

A family form where a man has more than one spouse, recognized in the Philippines among Muslims under Presidential Decree No. 1083.

Alternative family

Non-traditional families such as same-sex parents, co-parents, or foster parents that differ from the norm.

Adolescent family

Refers to parents nineteen years or younger who give birth and choose to parent a child.

Foster family

A temporary arrangement where children are placed in a substitute home by a protection agency until they can return to their parents.

Blended family

A family resulting from a union where one or both spouses bring children from a previous marriage into a new living arrangement.

Cohabiting family

A 'live-in' arrangement between an unmarried couple, also known as common-law spouses.

Patrilineal

Traces ancestry and affiliates a person with a group of relatives related through the father.

Bilineal

Traces ancestry through both parents' sides.

Matrilineal

Traces ancestry and affiliates a person through the maternal side.

Patrilocal

A residence arrangement where the married couple lives near the husband’s parents.

Matrilocal

A residence arrangement where the married couple lives near the wife’s parents.

Neolocal

A residence arrangement where the married couple lives separate and far from both sets of parents.

Patriarchal

A family system where authority is held by the father.

Egalitarian

A family system where authority is shared between parents.

Procreation

The family's function as the universally accepted institution for reproduction and child rearing.

Socialization

The process of learning how to become productive members of society and the transmission of culture.

Status placement

The family's role in establishing a child's position within the social class hierarchy of society.

Maturational crises

Health or non-health crises that can be anticipated by the family as part of the life cycle.

Incidental crises

Health or non-health crises that are not easily foreseeable.

Energized families

A term used by Otto (1973) and Pratt (1976) to describe healthy families with strong coping abilities.

Family life cycle (Duvall & Miller)

The stages of family development including marriage, parenting young children, living with adolescents, launching children, middle-age, and aging.

Gender anomaly

A situation where the three interacting parts of gender (Biology, Gender Role, and Gender Identity) are not in accordance with one another.

Family Code of the Philippines (E.O. 209)

The law signed in 1987 defining marriage as a special contract between a man and a woman for personal union and conjugal life.

Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act (R.A. 10354)

A law that protects the right to health of women and mothers while instilling health consciousness and protecting children through planned parenting.

Suprasystem

Disrupting forces or social systems outside the family, such as education and employment, that influence health.

Genogram

A tool used by nurses to diagram family structure, usually including three generations with symbols denoting genealogy.

Family health tree

A tool based on the genogram used to record medical and health histories like genetically linked or infectious diseases.

Ecomap

A tool that portrays the family's linkages to its suprasystems, depicting nurturant or conflict-laden connections to the world.

Wellness state

A clinical judgment about a family's readiness to increase well-being and enhance specific health behaviors.

Health Threat (Risk)

Conditions that potentially harm the family or cause accidents, such as smoking, noise pollution, or broken stairs.

Health Deficit

Instances of diagnosed or undiagnosed illness, disabilities, or failure to thrive based on signs and symptoms.

Foreseeable crisis

Anticipated periods of unusual demands on family resources, such as financial or developmental adjustments.

Family Coping Index

An assessment tool that rates family coping capacity across nine areas, such as Physical Independence and Therapeutic Competence.

Therapeutic Competence

The family’s ability to comply with prescribed procedures and treatments at home, such as medications and wound care.

Supplemental interventions

Actions the nurse performs on behalf of the family when they are unable to do things for themselves.

Facilitative interventions

Actions that remove barriers to appropriate health actions, such as assisting a family in availing maternal services.

Developmental interventions

Actions aimed at improving the capacity of the family to provide for its own health needs, directed toward family empowerment.

Principle of Mutuality

The principle that the family is given the opportunity to decide for itself how to best deal with a health situation.

Formative evaluation

Ongoing judgment made about the effectiveness of nursing interventions while they are being implemented.

Summative evaluation

Determining the final outcomes of nursing care and measuring the degree to which goals were achieved.

Effectiveness

An aspect of evaluation determining whether goals and objectives were attained.

Efficiency

An aspect of evaluation measuring the relationship of resources used (time, effort) to the outcomes attained.