Saint Gabriel College

COLLEGE OF NURSING
Old Buswang, Kalibo, Aklan

TERMINOLOGIES

1. Family - The basic fundamental of the society

2. Family Health - Family health is a state in which the family is a resource for the
day-to-day living and health of its members. A family provides its individual
members with key resources for healthful living, including food, clothing, shelter,
a sense of self-worth, and access to medical care.

3. Family Process - It is a scientific and systematized approach to health care for

individuals, families, and communities.

4. Family Centered Nursing - Patient- and family-centered care is an approach to

the planning, delivery, and evaluation of health care that is grounded in mutually
beneficial partnerships among health care professionals, patients, and families

Sentence:

5. Health problems - categorized into health deficit, health threat and foreseeable
crisis

6. Health deficits - This refers to conditions of family breaks down or advent of

illness in the family.

7. Health threats - These are the conditions that make it more likely for accidents,
disease or failure to thrive or develop to occur.

8. Foreseeable crisis - Anticipated periods of unusual demand on the individual or

family in terms of adjustment/ family resources

9. Salience - This refers to the family’s perception and evaluation of the condition
or problem terms of seriousness and urgency of attention needed or family
readiness.

10. Community Health Nursing - Is a unique blend of nursing and public health
practice aimed at developing and enhancing the health capabilities of people, either
singly as individuals or collectively as families, special population or communities.
It is involve in the entire spectrum of health services for the community.
11.Home visit - It is a professional contact made by the nurse to or in behalf of a
patient or family further a special activity of the agency.

12.Clinic visit - The nurse is able to help the family meet their needs, ease their
anxieties and help decide on what to do to promote and maintain their health.

13.Bag technique

Is a tool by which the nurse, during the visit will enable to perform nursing
procedure with ease and deftness, to save time and effort, with the end view of
rendering effective nursing care to clients.

14.Immunization - the action of making a person or animal immune to infection,

typically by inoculation.

15.Family Planning - the practice of controlling the number of children in a

family and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial
contraception or voluntary sterilization.

16.Herbal medicine - the study or practice of the medicinal and therapeutic use of
plants; herbalism.

17.Communicable Disease - also known as infectious diseases or transmissible

diseases, are illnesses that result from the infection, presence and growth of
pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an individual human or
other animal host.

18.Non-communicable Disease - is a medical condition or disease that is by

definition non-infectious and non-transmissible among people. 

19.Morbidity - Refers to having a disease or a symptom of disease, or to the

amount of disease within a population.

20.Mortality - the state of being subject to death.