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Typology of Nursing Problems
Typology of Nursing Problems
1. Healthy lifestyle
2. Health maintenance/health management
3. Parenting
4. Breastfeeding
5. Spiritual well-being
6. Others. Specify.
1. Alcohol drinking
2. Cigarette/tobacco smoking
3. Walking barefooted or inadequate footwear
4. Eating raw meat or fish
5. Poor personal hygiene
6. Self medication/substance abuse
7. Sexual promiscuity
8. Engaging in dangerous sports
9. Inadequate rest or sleep
10. Lack of /inadequate exercise/physical activity
11. Lack of/relaxation activities
12. Non use of self-protection measures (e.g. non use of bed nets in malaria
and filariasis endemic areas).
L. Inappropriate Role Assumption- e.g. child assuming mother’s role, father not
assuming his role.
N. Family Disunity-e.g.
O. Others. Specify._________
Examples include:
C. Parenthood
E. Abortion
F. Entrance at school
G. Adolescence
H. Divorce or separation
I. Menopause
J. Loss of job
L. Death of a member
N. Illegitimacy
O. Others, specify.___________
Second-Level Assessment
1. Social consequences
2. Economic consequences
3. Physical consequences
4. Emotional/psychological consequences
1. Physical Inaccessibility
2. Costs constraints or economic/financial inaccessibility
M. Others specify._________
III. Inability to provide adequate nursing care to the sick,
disabled, dependent or vulnerable/at risk member of the
family due to:
A. Lack of/inadequate knowledge about the disease/health condition (nature,
severity, complications, prognosis and management)
H. Philosophy in life which negates/hinder caring for the sick, disabled, dependent,
vulnerable/at risk member
L. Others. Specify._________
IV. Inability to provide a home environment conducive to
health maintenance and personal development due to:
A. Inadequate family resources specifically:
I. Lack of/inadequate competencies in relating to each other for mutual growth and
maturation (e.g. reduced ability to meet the physical and psychological needs of
other members as a result of family’s preoccupation with current problem or
condition.
J. Others specify._________
1. Cost constrains
2. Physical inaccessibility
I. Feeling of alienation to/lack of support from the community, e.g. stigma due to
mental illness, AIDS, etc.