Family Nursing Process

Question 1

Is an essential and indispensable equipment of a public health nurse which she has to carry along during herhome visits.

Answer 1

Public Health Nurse Bag

Question 2

Takes place in a private clinic, health center, barangay health station, or in an ambulatory clinic during a community outreach activity.

Answer 2

Clinic Visit

Question 3

A professional, purposeful interaction that takes place in the family’s residence aimed at promoting, maintaining, or restoring the health of the family or its members

Answer 3

Home Visit

Question 4

It is a family-nurse contact where, instead of the family going to the nurse, the nurse goes to the family

Answer 4

Home Visit

Question 5

The nurse makes a ____________ upon the family’s request, as a result of a case finding, in response to a referral, or to follow-up clients who have utilized services of a health facility such as a health center, lying-in clinic, or hospital

Answer 5

Home Visit

Question 6

Phases of Home Visit

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Pre-visit Phase
In-home Phase
Initiation
Implementation
Termination
Post-visit Phase

Question 7

The nurse contacts the family, determines the family’s willingness for a home visit, and sets an appointment with them. A plan for the home visit is formulated during this phase.

Answer 7

Pre-visit Phase

Question 8

The nurse seeks permission to enter and lasts until he or she leaves the family’s home.

Answer 8

In-home Phase

Question 9

involves the application of the nursing process – assessment, provision of direct nursing care as needed, and evaluation.

Answer 9

Implementation

Question 10

Consists of techniques such as interview, physical examination, and simple diagnostic examinations that can be done at home (Capillary blood glucose determination). It includes observation of family dynamics and the family’s physical environment (use Family Assessment Form as a guide).

Answer 10

Assessment

Question 11

Consists of summarizing with the family the events during the home visit and setting a subsequent home visit or another form of nurse-patient contact such as a clinic visit.

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Termination

Question 12

Takes place when the nurse has returned to the health facility. This involves documentation of the visit during which the nurse records events that transpired during the visit, including personal observations and feelings of the nurse about the visit. If appropriate, a referral may be made.

Answer 12

Post-visit Phase

Question 13

Provides opportunity for initial contact between the nurse and target families of the community

Answer 13

Group Conference

Question 14

Used to give specific information to families, such as instructions given to parents through school children

Answer 14

Written Communication

Question 15

Are reflected in data on household membership and demographic characteristics, family members living outside the household, family mobility, and family dynamics (emotional bonding, authority and power structure, autonomy of members, division of labor, and patterns of communication, decision making, and problem and conflict resolution). Data on family structure can be visualized clearly through graphic tools such as genogram, ecomap, and/or family health tree.

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Family Structure and Characteristics

Question 16

This category is concerned with the ability to move about to get out of bed, to take care of daily grooming, walking and other things which involve daily activities.

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Physical Independence

Question 17

This category includes all the procedures or treatment prescribed for the care of ill, such as giving medication, dressings, exercise and relaxation, special diets, use of prosthetic devices and other adaptive appliances such as wheelchairs and walker.

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Therapeutic Competence

Question 18

This system is concerned with understanding of the health condition or essentials of care according to the developmental stages of family members. Examples are the degree of knowledge of responsible family members in terms of communicability of a disease and its modes of transmission or that a disease is genetically transmitted, as in the case of diabetes mellitus.

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Knowledge of Health Condition

Question 19

This is concerned with the family action in relation to maintaining family nutrition, securing adequate rest and relaxation for family members, carrying out accepted preventive measures, such as immunization. This includes practice of general health promotion and recommended preventive measures.

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Application of the Principles of General Hygiene

Question 20

This category is concerned with the way the family feels about health care in general, including preventive services, care of illness and public health measures. This is observed in the family’s degree of responsiveness to promotive, preventive and curative efforts of health workers.

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Health Attitude

Question 21

This category has to do with the maturity and integrity with which the members of the family are able to meet the usual stresses and problems of life, and to plan for happy and fruitful living. This may be observed in behaviors such as how the family members deal with daily challenges, their ability to sacrifice and think of others, and acceptance to responsibility.

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Emotional Competence

Question 22

This category is concerned largely with the interpersonal or group aspects of family life – how well the members of the family get along with one another, the ways in which they take decisions affecting the family as a whole. This also refers to the management of family finances and the type of discipline in the home.

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Family Living

Question 23

This is concerned with the home, school, work and the community and the work environment as it affects family health.

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Family Environment

Question 24

This is the ability of the family to seek and utilize, as needed, both government-run and private health, education, and other community services.

Answer 24

Use of Community Facilities

Question 25

conditions that are conducive to disease, accident or failure to realize one’s health potential.

Answer 25

Health Threat

Question 26

Instances of failure in human maintenance

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Health deficit

Question 27

A brief statement that explains why you have rated the family as you have. These statements should be expressed in terms of behavior of observable facts. Example: “Family nutrition includes basic 4 rather than good diet.

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Justification

Question 28

Is done at the end of the given period of time. This enables the nurse to see progress the family has made in their competence; whether the prognosis was reasonable; and whether the family needs further nursing service and where emphasis should be placed.

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Terminal Rating

Question 29

Two parts of the Coping index

Answer 29

A point on the scale
A justification statement

Question 30

To provide a basis for estimating the nursing needs of a particular family.

Answer 30

Family Coping Index

Question 31

Include data on social integration (ethnic origin, languages and/or dialects spoken, and social networks), educational experiences and literacy, work history, financial resources, leisure time interests, and cultural influences, including spirituality or religious affiliation.

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Socioeconomic Characteristics

Question 32

refers to the physical environment inside the family’s home/residence and its neighborhood.

Answer 32

Family Environment

Question 33

take into account the family’s activities of daily living, self-care, risk behaviors, health history, current health status, and health care resources (home remedies and health services).

Answer 33

Family Health and Health Behavior

Question 34

Anticipated periods of unusual demand on the individual or family in terms of adjustment/family resources.

Answer 34

Stress Points/Foreseeable Crisis Situation