Family Concepts in Nursing

Family Concepts in Nursing

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Question 1

What are the important concepts listed in the readings, which are related to family nursing?

Family nursing practice has essentially been the cementing framework that has propelled the success of many home settings, today (Polit & Beck, 2012). Some of the concepts that are essential to family nursing are the viewing of a family as a combination of its members, a family as a context to family members, family as a component of society, as a client, and finally family subsystems as clients.

What are two related family nursing theories? Indicate what you find most attractive in the nursing theories/models you identified.

Roy’s “Adaptation model” and Neuman’s “Health Systems Model” are two related family nursing models. These theories are interestingly powerful in their approach towards family nursing. They both advance the concept of clients as systems, constantly interacting with the external environment (Friedman, Bowden & Jones, 2003).

Question 2

Describe the significance of the family as client.

Clearly, a family is essentially the primary key, in the entire family nursing practice, through which assessment and care relate and find their basis. As such, scholars view family as a system of interactions between its members, who comprise and construct the entity (Friedman, Bowden & Jones, 2003). Nonetheless, seeing a family as client reveals the immense dynamics and relationships within its subsystems, as well as the outer environment. This significantly indicates a holistic perspective in the conceptualization of family as a client.

Friedman, Bowden, Jones (2003) argue that advanced practices involve using different yet similar paradigms in their assessment of family interaction and framework. Such practices include family therapy, whose concentration is on multiple systems, such as the individual, family, and larger systems, symbolically representing the whole family as the unit of care (Friedman, Bowden & Jones, 2003). This explains the main reason there is a shift in viewing a family as a unit of care. These efforts are quickly taking root and a subject to success if taken keenly.

References

Friedman, M. M., Bowden, V. R., & Jones, E. (2003). Family nursing: research, theory & practice (5th ed.). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Polit, D. F., & Beck, C. T. (2012). Resource manual for nursing research: generating and assessing evidence for nursing practice (9th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/lippincott Williams & Wilkins.