NURS 4440 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Joint Custody, Child Custody, Dysfunctional Family
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Family nursing: strong theory base, not just common sense, consists of nurses and families working together to ensure the success of the family and its members in adapting to responses to health and illness. Nurses are responsible for the following: helping families promote their health, meeting family health needs, coping with health problems within the context of the existing family structure and community resources, collaborating with families to develop useful interventions. Family demographics: study of the structure of families and households and of family-related events, such as marriage and divorce, that alter the structure through their number, timing, and sequencing family structure have changed over time. Families are more responsible than ever for providing and managing the care of family members. Families are very significant and important part of the health care team include them in goal achieving. Family functions historically: financial survival economic units, reproduce, protection, pass along culture/religious faith, educate/socialize their young, confer status in society.
