NURS103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Health Promotion, Nuclear Family
28 Mar 2018
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Theories that help us understand the people nurses work with. The family is defined biologically, legally, or as a social network with personally constructed ties and ideologies. *it is a set of relationships that the patient identifies as family or as a network of indi(cid:448)iduals (cid:449)ho influen(cid:272)e ea(cid:272)h other"s li(cid:448)es, (cid:449)hether or not there are a(cid:272)tual (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al or legal ties. The fa(cid:373)ily is ea(cid:272)h perso(cid:374)"s defi(cid:374)itio(cid:374) of (cid:449)ho or (cid:449)hat (cid:272)o(cid:374)stitutes a fa(cid:373)ily. Family as context: focus on either the patient within the context of his or her family or on the family with the individual as the context; relates to the clinical setting, clinical problem and practical considerations. Family as patient: focus on the entire family (processes and relationships e. g. parenting, impacts of the marital relationship or family caregiving); family patterns interactions among family members are the focus, rather than individual characteristics. Patterns of people considered by family members to be included in the family.
