NSG3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Palliative Care, Childhood Obesity, Visible Minority

• School: Fanshawe College
• Department: health sciences
• Course: NSG3
• Professor: Hall- Fanshawe College

Document Summary

Family- unique and whomever the person defines as family. They include parents, children, siblings, neighbours, and people in the community (rnao). It is also any combination of two or more persons who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth, and/or adoption (vanier institute). Family health- the relative functioning of the family as the primary social agent in the promotion of health and well being (who). The individual and cooperative processes to dynamically engage one another and their diverse environments over the life course. Functions of the family- physical care of members, addition of new members, socialization of children, distribution and consumption of goods and services, and love. Characteristics of health families- negotiation skills, communication, respect, encouraging, responsibility, demonstrates closeness, and diversity of culture. Family health nursing- a process providing for the health needs of a family that are within the scope of nursing practice.