Family Health Nursing Process

Family Health Nursing Process is a systematic approach to help family to develop and strengthen its capability
to meet its health needs and solve health problem. Family health nursing process is closely related to community
health nursing process. The main objective or goals of family health nursing process are health promotion,
prevention from disease and control of health problem. There are different phases of family health nursing
process.

Evaluation Implementation

FAMILY HEALTH
NURSING PROCESS

Assessment Nursing Diagnosis Planning

Step 1. Family Health assessment

Step 2. Nursing Diagonsis

Step 3. Planning

Step4. Implementation

Step 5. Evaluation

Step 1. Health Assessment:- Assessment of health of family and family member is the first step in
family health nursing process. Collection of data is a baseline procedure to find out health status
medical history, Socio-economic status, and health behaviour and environment factor.

Method and Technique for data collection:- there are different method.
1. Observation
2. Questing
3. Listening
4. Examination
5. Investigation
6. Review of family health record
7. Discussion & Conversation

Step 2. Nursing Diagnosis:- Health assessment describe family profile in which explain all the needs
and health problem in family. So nursing diagnosis should be made according to need of family and
intervation must be based on periodically.
Step3. Planning:- Planning face in family health nursing process is concerned with formulation of
family health nursing care plan. There are some steps including in planning of family health nursing
process.

1. Analysis of health problem

2. Establish priorities
3. Setting goal
4. Identify external and internal sources
5. Formulate family health and nursing care plan

Step4. Implementation (Action Phase):- This phase is concern with direct interaction of
community health nurse to family & family member. Different approaches which are planned can
be applied for intervention activity. There are some barriers in implementation i.e. poor planning,
lack of resources, poor IPR, Poor Participation & Existence of chronic multi problem in the
family.

Step5. Evaluation:- Evaluation is the last step in family health nursing process. It help to check
out effectiveness of care which are provided to family. Evaluation helps to give merits and
demerits of nursing process.