Family Based Nursing Services (Family Health Nursing Process)

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• Nursing Assessment of Family:
• First Level Assessment:
1. Family structure, characteristics and dynamics
2. Socio-economic and cultural characteristics
3. Home and environment
4. Health status of each member
5. Values and practices on health promotion/maintenance and disease prevention
• Second Level Assessment:
• data include those that specify or describe the family's realities, perceptions about and attitudes related to the assumption or performance of family health tasks on each health condition or problem identified during the first level assessment

• Developing the Nursing Care Plan:
• Steps in Developing a Family Care Plan:
1. The prioritized condition/s or problems
2. The goals and objectives of nursing care
3. The plan of interventions
4. The plan for evaluating care
• Implementing the Nursing Care Plan:
• During this phase the nurse encounters the realities in family nursing practice which can motivate her to try out creative innovations or overwhelm her to frustration or inaction
• As the nurse practitioner works with clients she experiences varying degrees of demands on her resources
• A dynamic attitude on personal and professional development is, therefore, necessary if she has to face up to challenges of nursing practice
• Evaluation of Family Health Services