Family Health Verified A+
working with families ✔️✔️•Working with families has never been more complex or rewarding than
now.
•Nurses understand the actual and potential impact that families have in changing the health status of
individual family members, communities, and society as a whole.
•Families have challenging health care needs that are not usually addressed by the health care system.
definitions
historical ✔️✔️•The environment affecting individual clients
•Small to large groups of interacting people
•A single unit of care with definable boundaries
•A unit of care within a specific environment of a community or society
definitions
current ✔️✔️Current theorists:
•Two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic support.
Members of family are self-defined.
- Hanson & Kaakimen (2005)
•The family is who they say they are.
- Wright & Leahey (2000)
inclusive definitions of family ✔️✔️"Family" means any person(s) playing a significant role in an
individual's life. This may include person(s) not legally related to the individual. Members of "family"
include spouses, domestic partners, and both different-sex and same-sex significant others. "Family"
includes a minor patient's parents, regardless of gender of either parent ... without limitation as
, encompassing legal parents, foster parents, same-sex parents, step-parents, those serving in loco
parentis, and others operating in caretaker roles.
the changing family
purpose of the family
examples of different family types ✔️✔️•Purposes of the family
•To meet the needs of society
•To meet the needs of individual family members
•Examples of different family types
•Traditional, nuclear family
•Multigenerational family household
•Cohabitating families
•Single-parent families
•Grandparent-headed families
•Gay or lesbian families
•Unmarried teen mothers
the "sandwhich" generation ✔️✔️people responsible for the care of both their children and aging
relatives
adults 40-59
Why is it important for the CHN to work with families ✔️✔️•The family is a critical resource.
•Any dysfunction in a family unit will affect the members and the unit as a whole.
working with families ✔️✔️•Working with families has never been more complex or rewarding than
now.
•Nurses understand the actual and potential impact that families have in changing the health status of
individual family members, communities, and society as a whole.
•Families have challenging health care needs that are not usually addressed by the health care system.
definitions
historical ✔️✔️•The environment affecting individual clients
•Small to large groups of interacting people
•A single unit of care with definable boundaries
•A unit of care within a specific environment of a community or society
definitions
current ✔️✔️Current theorists:
•Two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic support.
Members of family are self-defined.
- Hanson & Kaakimen (2005)
•The family is who they say they are.
- Wright & Leahey (2000)
inclusive definitions of family ✔️✔️"Family" means any person(s) playing a significant role in an
individual's life. This may include person(s) not legally related to the individual. Members of "family"
include spouses, domestic partners, and both different-sex and same-sex significant others. "Family"
includes a minor patient's parents, regardless of gender of either parent ... without limitation as
, encompassing legal parents, foster parents, same-sex parents, step-parents, those serving in loco
parentis, and others operating in caretaker roles.
the changing family
purpose of the family
examples of different family types ✔️✔️•Purposes of the family
•To meet the needs of society
•To meet the needs of individual family members
•Examples of different family types
•Traditional, nuclear family
•Multigenerational family household
•Cohabitating families
•Single-parent families
•Grandparent-headed families
•Gay or lesbian families
•Unmarried teen mothers
the "sandwhich" generation ✔️✔️people responsible for the care of both their children and aging
relatives
adults 40-59
Why is it important for the CHN to work with families ✔️✔️•The family is a critical resource.
•Any dysfunction in a family unit will affect the members and the unit as a whole.
