Family as Client

Family as Client

Family as Client

· Assesses all family members

· The nurse is interested in the way all the family members are individually affected by the health/hospitalization of one member of the family unit.

· The family is in the foreground.

· Focus is on every member of the family.

An example of could be when a beloved matriarch of the family gets a grave diagnosis, the nurse would ask the patient how her family was dealing with the diagnosis?  How are the members of your family adjusting to this news?  Will the care you will need be a problem for your family?

**For the Approaches to Family Nursing Assignment, think of a time in your clinical practice or with your own particular family when one family member suffered from a health care problem and as a result other members of the family developed health care needs.  Describe the health needs of all of the family members and the overall affects of the family members’ illness on the rest of the family.