NUR1 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Genogram, Active Listening
11 Nov 2012
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Exploring and getting to know the family helps the family to share concerns and to describe their experience of the situation. Family constructs their perspective calling on their belief system (wright, watson & bell, 1996) Nurse establishes trust by beginning with what is of importance or of uppermost concern to the person/family. Nurse can help families navigate through life events and grow in response. Nurse works with the family to clarify and prioritize goals, problem-solve alternatives approaches, trying out a plan and reviewing the outcome(s). Nurses work with families throughout the life span, during transitional events (birth, death) illness, trauma and times of vulnerability (families may be dealing with more than one event at the same time). Nursing a) identifies strengths b) develops strengths and c) calls forth family strengths. Nursing a) identifies resources b) mobilizes and helps family use resources and c) regulates the input of resources. Family systems are organizationally complex, open, adaptive, information-processing, purposeful, and goal-seeking.
