WHY IS THE CONCEPT OF FAMILY HEALTH IMPORTANT? NRS 429
WHY IS THE CONCEPT OF FAMILY HEALTH IMPORTANT? NRS 429
Topic 2 DQ 2
Why is the concept of family health important? Consider the various strategies for health promotion. How does a nurse determine which strategy would best enable the targeted individuals to gain more control over, and improve, their health?
The concept of Family health is important because health and health-protecting behaviors effect the entire family system. The family can receive guidance from the nurse, through various models of care.
The Adaptive Care Model is one strategy for health promotion within families. This refers to a “Model of health associated with an individual’s ability to adapt to a change in health status.” (Falkner, 2018.) This model provides some direction and assists families with setting goals for Caregiving.
Being in a family system means that there will be opportunities for growth and for change. The nurse can leverage these opportunities when explaining how families can adapt to the care of themselves and their loved ones successfully. Keeping a positive outlook while patients attempt to make changes that are difficult or frightening, can be of the utmost importance.
It is very important for the nurse to assess a patient and their family member’s learning styles. The nurse can foster the patient and family’s feelings of confidence and self-control by giving them accurate information, utilizing evidence-based data, and asking the learners to perform return demonstrations of skills. The nurse can foster the patient and family’s feelings of confidence by setting them up for success and celebrating small victories when they do something well. It is important to break things down into manageable parts, and not to overwhelm the patient and family with too much information and confusion. The nurse can definitely assist the patient by giving the education that is needed in the moment, and by reinforcing education with the patient and family member at a later time. The ability to adapt and change will assist the patient in making overall healthcare improvements. (Wright and Leahey, 1994.)
References:
Falkner, A. Grand Canyon University (Ed). (2018). Health promotion: Health & wellness across the continuum. Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs429vn/health-promotion-health-and-wellness-across-the-continuum/v1.1/
Calgary Family Intervention Model: One Way to Think About Change,” by Wright and Leahey, from Journal of Marital and Family Therapy (1994).
Sheenamol Bejoy
replied toMichelle Ball
Oct 9, 2022, 6:08 PM
Michelle Ball, the idea of family health is significant because a person’s health and the actions they take to safeguard their health have an impact on the whole of the family unit. The nurse will provide the family with counseling through the many forms of care that are available. Members of the family collaborated, communicated, and provided care for one another in order to establish and maintain individual and family health routines.
· Tajinder Singh
replied toMichelle Ball
Oct 9, 2022, 11:11 PM
Michelle great post! I totally agree with you in that it is indeed very important to assess the patients families learning style when you are providing any kind of teaching or health promotion in the setting. Now since the pandemic seems to be winding down hospitals have relaxed with visitation policies and bedside nurses are getting frequent overnight stays where the family or 1 or 2 of the patients family members usually spent the night in the hospital with their loved one and if you work night-shift like I do I am not used to family members visiting since the last 2 years. So no I have to keep in mind the aspect of learning style of the family and assess and provide proper teaching and health promotion to the family and patients to ensure quality health care.
Charity Uroegbulam
Oct 7, 2022, 5:36 PM
Health is a state of complete physical , mental and social well being and not merely the absence of diseases and infirmities. Family is an integral part of the society and it affects the behaviors and beliefs of the individual. Family health is a social economic process whereby the health of family members is maintained. It is identified as a dynamic and complex construct consisting of multiple members interactions within and across the boundaries of households nested within social contexts.
The concept of family health is important in healthcare promotion because it helps to identify some genetic traits which can predispose patients to certain diseases. Members of certain populations have same traits which can be transmitted from one generations to another and understanding this helps to elicit the possible diseases,
Family health history can identify people with a higher than usual chances of having common disorders such as heart diseases high blood pressure, stroke, certain cancers and type 2 diabetics.
The nurse uses good communication skill, assessment, environmental and behavioral strategies to promote the health of the patient
Reference:
Sue Z. Green. Retrieved from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs429vn/health-promotion-health-and-wellness-across-the-continuum/v1.1/#/chapter/4
