CHN: Family Health Care Nursing
Exam Study Guide
- art and a science
- way of thinking about and working with families - ANSWER family health care nursing
philosophy and a way of interacting with clients that affects how nurses collect info,
advocate, approach spiritual care - ANSWER family nursing
assumptions that health affects all members of families that health and illness are family
events, and families influence process and outcome of health care - ANSWER
philosophy and practice
considers health as unit in addition to health of individual family members - ANSWER
concept of family centered nursing
- nursing aspect of organized family health care services which are directed or focus on
family as unit care with health as goal
- synthesis of nursing care and health care
- generalized, well balanced and integrated comprehensive and continuous - ANSWER
family health nursing
optimal functioning for the individual and family - ANSWER goal of FHN
1. provide services without discrimination
2. periodic and continuous appraisal and evaluation of family health situations
3. proper maintenance of records
4. provide continuous services
5. health education, guidance and supervision as integral part of family nursing
6. plan and provide FHN with active participation
7. services should be realistic in terms of resources available
8. encourage family to contribute
9. active participation in making health care delivery system - ANSWER principles of
FHN
, four approaches of FHN - ANSWER 1. family as the context
2. family as the client
3. family as a sytem
4. family as a component of society
- family as context
- primary focus: health and development of an individual member existing within a
specific environment - ANSWER family as the context
- family is the foreground and individuals are in the background
- sum of individuals family members
- focus: concentrated on each and every individual as they affect the whole family -
ANSWER family as the client
- focus: family as a client and viewed as an international system in which the whole is
more than the sum of its parts
- focuses on individual and family members become target for nursing interventions
- example: direct interaction between parent and child
- system approach: when something happens to one affected - ANSWER family as a
system
made between family as a context and family as a client, they're not necessarily mutually
exclusive, often used simultaneously - ANSWER theoretical and practical distinctions
- family is seen as one of many institutions in society
- basic or primary unit
- family as a whole interacts with other institutions to receive exchange services -
ANSWER family as a component of society
roles of health care nurses (FHN) - ANSWER 1. health teacher
2. coordinator
3. deliverer and supervisor of care and technical expert
4. family advocate
5. consultant
6. counselor
Exam Study Guide
- art and a science
- way of thinking about and working with families - ANSWER family health care nursing
philosophy and a way of interacting with clients that affects how nurses collect info,
advocate, approach spiritual care - ANSWER family nursing
assumptions that health affects all members of families that health and illness are family
events, and families influence process and outcome of health care - ANSWER
philosophy and practice
considers health as unit in addition to health of individual family members - ANSWER
concept of family centered nursing
- nursing aspect of organized family health care services which are directed or focus on
family as unit care with health as goal
- synthesis of nursing care and health care
- generalized, well balanced and integrated comprehensive and continuous - ANSWER
family health nursing
optimal functioning for the individual and family - ANSWER goal of FHN
1. provide services without discrimination
2. periodic and continuous appraisal and evaluation of family health situations
3. proper maintenance of records
4. provide continuous services
5. health education, guidance and supervision as integral part of family nursing
6. plan and provide FHN with active participation
7. services should be realistic in terms of resources available
8. encourage family to contribute
9. active participation in making health care delivery system - ANSWER principles of
FHN
, four approaches of FHN - ANSWER 1. family as the context
2. family as the client
3. family as a sytem
4. family as a component of society
- family as context
- primary focus: health and development of an individual member existing within a
specific environment - ANSWER family as the context
- family is the foreground and individuals are in the background
- sum of individuals family members
- focus: concentrated on each and every individual as they affect the whole family -
ANSWER family as the client
- focus: family as a client and viewed as an international system in which the whole is
more than the sum of its parts
- focuses on individual and family members become target for nursing interventions
- example: direct interaction between parent and child
- system approach: when something happens to one affected - ANSWER family as a
system
made between family as a context and family as a client, they're not necessarily mutually
exclusive, often used simultaneously - ANSWER theoretical and practical distinctions
- family is seen as one of many institutions in society
- basic or primary unit
- family as a whole interacts with other institutions to receive exchange services -
ANSWER family as a component of society
roles of health care nurses (FHN) - ANSWER 1. health teacher
2. coordinator
3. deliverer and supervisor of care and technical expert
4. family advocate
5. consultant
6. counselor
