Nursing 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Home Health Nursing, Primary Healthcare, Nursing Process
9 Dec 2016
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Objectives: define family and it"s basic purposes, describe the theoretical underpinnings of family healthcare nursing, discuss components and basic characteristics of family assessment, relate family home visits to the canadian community health nursing standards and. Public health core competence in practice: discuss case management and family-centered care, discuss the opportunities and challenges, including future research, for community health nurses who provide family healthcare nursing. Families can be a major source of functional, emotional, psychological, and informational support. Family nurses feel satisfied knowing that they made a difference in promotion health or reducing suffering in the lives of their clients. Community health nurses (chns) recognize that improving the health of families is one way to improve the health of communities. Romanticized family is a nuclear one with two loving heterosexual parents and two well- accomplished children. The stigmatized family has a litany of problems usually including poverty, substance abuse, violence, and learning difficulties.
