Family as Context
Discuss from your nursing experience an intervention you used with a family using each of the 4 types of approaches:
1. Family as Context
· Focuses on the assessment and care of an individual patient in which the family is the context.
· Traditional
· Individual is in the foreground and the family is in the background
· Family serves as context for the individual as a resource or stressor (so the family can be either anegative or positive context). An example of this would be in the care of children under 18. Physician rounds are generally “family centered” and done with the focus on the patient, but with discussion with both the patient and the parents or caregivers.
** For the Approaches to Family Nursing Assignment, think of a time in your clinical practice or with your own particular family when one of the members of the family needed health care and other members of the family were involved in that person’s health care needs. Explain who the family member in need of health care was, what was the condition of the family member, health problem, and health care needs. What roles did each family member take in helping care for the individual family member?
