Nursing 1080A/B- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 68 pages long!)

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Lecture 1: family & community context to health. Family: a set of relationships or as a network of individuals who influence each other"s lives. Future obligations and care-giving functions (ex: protection, nourishment, socialization) Fictive families: the addition of a person to the family who is not related by blood but given a place in the family. Any combination of two or more persons who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth and/or adoption or placement and who, together, assume responsibilities for variant combinations of some of the following: Addition of new members through procreation of adoption. What the 2011 census tells us about families. The census data counted just over 9. 3 million families in canada. Of those, about 67 percent were married couples, down from 70. 5 percent in 2001. More complex families increasingly comprise two wage earners. Most mothers work outside the home (effects on children?) Finding high quality child care is a major issue.