ASSIGNMENT

ON FAMILY HEALTH NURSING PROCESS

SUBJECT: CLINICAL SPECIALITY-I (COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING)

SUBMITTED BY,

C.DHASARATHAN

I YEAR

M.Sc., NURSING

CCN, CARE

SUBMITTED TO,

Prof. YAGA JAYANTHI

M.Sc., NURSING

HOD COMMUNITYHEALTH
NURSING

CCN, CARE

SUBMITTED ON: 06.07.2022

 FAMILY HEALTH NURSING PROCESS

INTRODUCTION
Family health services are the central point of health services. It is an important
component of “Health for All” goal. Health of each individual affects the health of
other member of family. It is essential for community health nurse to have a sound
knowledge of family. Family health can be defined as continuing ability to meet
defined functions in interaction with other social, political, economic and health
system.

TERMINOLOGIES
Family
Two or more individuals coming from the same or different kinship groups who
are involved in a continuous living arrangement, usually residing in the same
household, experiencing common emotional bonds, and sharing certain obligations
toward each other and toward others.
Family health
A condition including the promotion and maintenance of physical, mental,
spiritual, and social health for the family unit and for individual family members.
Family process
The ongoing interaction between family members through which they accomplish
their instrumental and expressive tasks.
Family centered nursing
Nursing that considers health of the family as a unit in addition to the health of
individual family members.

DEFINITION OF FAMILY HEALTH NURSING PROCESS

Family health nursing process is a systematic approach to help family to develop
and strengthen its capacity to meet its health needs and solve health problems.

Family health nursing process is a orderly, systematic steps to assess the health
needs, plan, implement and evaluate the services to achieve the health. It is the
systematic steps to analyze health problems and their solutions. It helps in
achieving desire goals of health promotion, prevention and control of health
problems.

AIMS OF FAMILY HEALTH NURSING 

1. Reducing maternal mortality, morbidity and infant mortality rate
2. Spacing birth of children
 3. Solve problem of malnutrition in family
4. Health education.

OBJECTIVE 

To educate, counsel and guide family members to cultivate good personal health
habits, practice safe cultural practices and maintain wholesome physical,
psychosocial, and spiritual environment.

PRINCIPLES OF FAMILY HEALTH NURSING

o Provide services without discrimination.

o Periodic and continuous appraisal and evaluation of family health
situation.
o Proper maintenance of record and reports.
o Provide continuous services.
o Maintain good IPR.
o Health education, guidance and supervision as integral part of family
health nursing.
o Plan and provide family health nursing with active participation of
family. Services should be realistic in terms of resources available.
o Encourage family to contribute towards community health.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF FAMILY HEALTH

NURSING

ADVANTAGES
o Patients on family health nursing
can continue with their routine
pursuits.
o If the patient resides in a sanitary
house, family health nursing is
better than hospital nursing since
he can control inimical
environmental influences better.
DISADVANTAGES
o Family health nursing requires the
nurse to carry portable laboratory
machinery to the patent’s home.
o If the patient resides in a
substandard house, family health
nursing could delay his recovery.

FAMILY CENTERED NURSING APPROACH

 1. Family as the context
2. Family as the client
3. Family as a system
4. Family as a component of society

ELEMENTS OF FAMILY HEALTH NURSING PROCESS

A - Assessment

D - Diagnosis

P – Planning

I - Implementation

E – Evaluation

Assessment

It involves Observation, Nursing history, Consultation Review of Literature,

Interview, Clinical Records, Physical & Psychosocial history.

Diagnosis

Consist family diagnosis.

Planning

It involves establishing priorities, setting goals & objectives and formulating

family health nursing care plan.

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

Implementation

It consists of mobilization of resources facilitating work environment,

implementation and documentation.

Evaluation

Involves summative and formative evaluation of family health nursing care plan.

ROLE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE IN FAMILY HEALTH

o Care provider
o Educator
o Coordinator & Collaborator
o Advocate
o Consultant
o Counselor
o Environmental modifier
o Researcher
o Case manager 

QUALITIES OF FAMILY HEALTH NURSE

1. Family centered approach

2. Holistic approach (wellness)
3. Non-judgmental during approach
4. Accepting different values & beliefs Self-awareness
5. Able to work in adverse conditions
6. Flexible Sensitive towards time & efforts Skillful Independent & positive
attitude Able to cope & manage stress
7. Able to handle situation
8. Terminate relationship with family

BIBLIOGRAPHY

BOOK REFERENCE

A textbook of “Community Health Nursing” Bijulakshmi dass ,2 nd

edition ,2019,Page.no:200-213
NET REFERENCE

https://www.slideshare.net/kunal770909/family-health-nursing

JOURNAL REFERENCE

Journal of Family Nursing (JFN), this journal is a member of the Committee on

Publication Ethics (COPE).Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD. University of Calgary,
Canada.