NUR 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Decision-Making, Family Traditions, Toilet Training
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Family: interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation or adoption. Comprehensive family assessment: consider family as group, member and individual, listening to family, engaging in participatory dialogue, recognizing patterns. Family theories and frameworks: systems theory. Patterns of living among individuals in family system. Developmental perspective: stages of family life cycle. Does not account for diversity in family. Failure in earlier stage may lead to difficulties at later stage. Structural-functional perspective: family structure refers to family composition, including roles and relationships, consist of processes within systems as information and energy exchange occurs between families and their environment. Risk factor perspective: lifestyle, biological, environmental, social, psychological, cultural, spiritual, health care system. Health perception-health management pattern: concerns about children, relationship of health/safety practices, lifestyle, chronic diseases, unintended health problems, risk factors, environmental safety, health related behaviors, use of health care, experiences in health care system. Nutritional-metabolic pattern: families typical food and fluid consumption in relation and metabolism, nutrition dietary patterns.
