Care of Mother, Child, Adolescent and Family Nursing Process Flashcards

A comprehensive vocabulary flashcard set covering maternal and child nursing frameworks, family definitions and types, developmental stages, genograms, and the complete steps of the family nursing process.

Obstetrics

Derived from 'obstare', meaning to keep watch; it encompasses nursing care for the pregnant woman, child, and family.

Calista Roy's Adaptation Model

A nursing theory centered on helping the patient adapt to changes caused by illness and stressors.

Dorothea Orem's Self-Care Theory

A nursing theory focusing on the individual's and family's capability to perform self-care.

Family (US Census Bureau)

A group of people related by blood, marriage, or adoption living together.

Family (Allender and Spradley)

Two or more people who live in the same household, share a common emotional bond, and perform certain interrelated social tasks.

Family of Orientation

The family into which a person is born, consisting of oneself, mother, father, siblings, grandparents, and relatives.

Family of Procreation

The family established by an individual, consisting of oneself, a spouse or significant other, and children.

Dyad Family

A family unit consisting of two people living together without children, such as a newly married couple.

Cohabitation Family

A family composed of unmarried heterosexual couples and their children living in the same household.

Nuclear Family

A traditional family structure composed of a husband, wife, and their children.

Polygamous Family

A family structure based on a marriage with multiple wives.

Extended Family

A multigenerational family structure that includes the nuclear family as well as grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandchildren.

Blended Family

A reconstituted family formed when a divorced or widowed person with children marries someone who also has children.

Communal Family

A family formed by groups of people who choose to live together as an extended family, motivated by social or religious values rather than kinship.

Foster Family

A family setup where children whose parents can no longer care for them are placed in a substitute home by a child protection agency.

Boomerang Generation

Young adult children who return home to live with their parents during the launching stage of the family.

Sandwich Family

A middle-aged family unit squeezed between taking care of aging parents and raising young children or supporting returning young adults.

Genogram

A visual, graphic representation of a family's structure, relationships, and health history spanning at least three generations using standardized symbols.

Family Health Assessment

The first phase of the family nursing process involving collecting, organizing, validating, and recording data to measure a family's wellness, health problems, and functional capability.

First Level Assessment

The assessment phase of identifying existing and potential health conditions categorized into wellness conditions, health threats, health deficits, and stress points/foreseeable crises.

Wellness Condition

A health status in which an individual or family functions effectively, maintains balance, and experiences no significant health problems.

Health Threats

Conditions or factors that increase the likelihood of developing illness, disease, or health-related problems in the future.

Health Deficits

Actual health problems or existing illnesses currently present in a family member requiring care, treatment, or intervention.

Stress Points / Foreseeable Crisis

Predictable life events or developmental transitions that may cause stress or disrupt normal family functioning.

Second Level Assessment

The assessment phase of converting categorized health conditions into specific family nursing diagnoses describing the family's inability to perform health tasks.

Central Obesity Thresholds

An abdominal measurement indicator defined as a waist circumference greater than $88\,\text{cm}$ in women and greater than $102\,\text{cm}$ in men.

Modified Denver Developmental Screening Test (MMDST)

A developmental screening tool used to assess whether children from birth to $6\,\text{years}$ of age are achieving milestones across Gross Motor, Fine Motor, Language, and Personal-Social domains.

Family Health Tasks (Duvall and Miller)

The essential responsibilities families perform to maintain health, prevent illness, respond to stressors, and support all members across the life cycle.

Maglaya's Five Family Nursing Tasks

The five essential family health actions: recognizing a health problem, making decisions regarding health actions, providing care to sick members, maintaining a healthy home environment, and utilizing community health resources.

Family Coping Index (FCI)

A nursing assessment tool used to rate a family's capacity and competence to cope with health care needs across nine specified domains.

Family Care Plan

The blueprint of nursing care designed to systematically minimize or eliminate identified family health problems through outcomes, interventions, and evaluation criteria.

Nature of the Condition or Problem

A prioritization criterion weighted at $1$ that categorizes problems into wellness state (score of $3$), health deficit (score of $2$), and foreseeable crisis (score of $1$).

Modifiability of the Condition or Problem

A prioritization criterion weighted at $2$ that assesses the probability of success in eradicating or alleviating a health problem.

Preventive Potential

A prioritization criterion weighted at $1$ assessing the magnitude of future problems that can be prevented if intervention is provided.

Salience

A prioritization criterion weighted at $1$ measuring the family's perception of the seriousness and urgency of a health problem.

Home Health Visit

A type of nurse-family contact where the nurse goes to the family's home to conduct firsthand assessments, adapt interventions, and foster family self-reliance.

Bag Technique

A standard method performed during home visits to deliver direct nursing care safely and efficiently while maintaining infection control.

Phenomenological Experience

The dynamic interchange of meanings, perceptions, and emotions between the nurse and family grounded in the family's lived experiences.

Expert Caring

A nursing practice rooted in lived family experiences aimed at liberating family capabilities rather than exercising control.