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a system of ideas, beliefs, and attitudes about the worst of an entity of
concept that consciously or unconsciously binds the family together.
Family values
Patterns of behaviors considered "right in a given society"
norms
What stage or prevention:
health promotion and disease prevention
role of the family RN is to teach families to take responsibility for health
and attain health goals by enjoying a healthy lifestyle
primary prevention
what stage of prevention:
-early detection and and treatment
the role of the family RN is to:
-conduct screening and assessments
-make referrals
- determine patterns of dysfunction
- health teaching
secondary prevention
what stage of prevention:
- management of chronic illness
- rehabilitation and convalescence
role of family RN:
- provide support to families while in the rehabilitation process
- case manager, advocate, and counselor
,tertiary prevention
in family nursing, the first step is __________
assessment
***assessment is constant throughout the course of treatment
What theory?:
-focuses on the family's response to crisis, resources, and perceptions of a
situation.
- illness causing stress that changes the family dynamic
- resources for the family for dealing with stressor(s)
- implications/reality of the event on families and how they will adapt
Family Stress Theory
what theory?:
-comprehensive, holistic perspective assessing the family and family
universe (inner and outer environments)
- family as a social system
- identifies how the family interacts with each other in the family
relationships and support each other effectively to perform their actions
structural functional theory
What theory?:
-looks at the family progression through its lifecycles with predictable
stages, tasks, and issues
- limitation - emphasis on the nuclear family
Family developmental theory
Commonly experienced events of the family as a unit through its
existence
the family lifecycle
,the most functional way of maintaining equilibrium in a family in the face
of a change is by the use of ________ ________
role flexibility
role changes create _______ during transition
stress
most important way in which we identify social class
occupation
what are the three ways in which we identify social class?
1. occupation - most important
2. income
3. education - ranked highest in the process of analysis for determining
health status outcomes
defined as a unit with distinct part and boundaries, extending over a
period of time and with some identified purpose(s)
system
the central nervous system consists of the _______ and __________
brain and spinal cord
lobe that is associated with working memory, planning, and insight into
our problems
frontal lobe
primitive part of the brain - involved in swallowing, arousal, and
breathing
brainstem
puts emotional meaning on a stimulus, forms environmental memories
and is involved in rage and fear
amygdala
, involved in learning, processing information into memories, and assigning
the time and the place to memories
hippocampus
involved with emotions
- made up of the rim of the medial (innermost) portions of the frontal,
parietal, and temporal lobes and overlies the brainstem
limbic system
carry sensory information TOWARD the central nervous system and brain
afferent neurons
carry motor information AWAY from the central nervous system and
toward muscles to cause movemenet
efferent neurons
inhibitory neurotransmitter in the nervous system
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)
excitatory neurotransmitter in the nervous system
glutamate
responsible for myelin formation in the CNS
oligodendroglia cells
disease of the nerve cells that lead into the basal ganglia resulting in
shuffled gait, tremors, rigidity, etc.
Parkinson's disease
termination of a neurotransmitter action in SNS requires uptake into a
_______ _________
presynaptic neuron
recovery emerges from ________
hope