What is Kaakinen’s definition of “family health care nursing?”
What is your own vision of family nursing?
What from your readings “resonates” with your own personal thoughts on family nursing?
Kaakinen, et al (2015) identified family health care nursing as providing healthcare needs to families that are within the nurses scope of practice and is intended to address all four approaches of viewing a family to treat the family as a whole (p.8).
My personal view of what family nursing is, and what the expected outcome should be, coincide with treating the family as a whole. I mean this is the ultimate form of patient centered care. It incorporates all aspects of a person’s culture, views, support systems, and identifies potential barriers …show more content…
There is really only one instance that I can think of in which this type of interaction occurred and went beyond the primary person being treated. My grandmother developed Alzheimer’s when I was about 11 years old. Her progression from early onset Alzheimer’s to late stage Alzheimer’s occurred rather quickly. I remember our family doctor at the time was worried about how our family was adjusting to the recent changes in my grandma’s health. If my grandmother had an appointment or if one of us had to go in for a check up, he or the nurse would always ask how we doing and how were coping with my grandma’s illness. This to me describes the family as a system approach in family nursing, because they assessed both direct and indirect aspects of the patient’s family along with the patient simultaneously (Kaakinen, et al., 2015, …show more content…
Doane and Varcoe describes an additional (spiritual) lens. Through which lens do you think it will be the easiest to view the families you will be encountering?
Which will be the most difficult?
I feel the lens that would be the easiest to view the families I will be working with would probably include the family as context and as a system. The context lens, the patient is at the forefronts, which is ultimately how we streamline care in clinical and acute care settings (Kaakinen, et al., 2015, p.11). In the system lens, the family and the patient are assessed together as a whole and care is modified to increase functionality within the group (Kaakinen, et al., 2015, p.10).
Doane, H., and Varcoe, C., (2005) define spirituality as the ability to move past transcendence the logical and the rational, and seeing beyond the objective, interperative, and contextual aspects of a persons life (p.78). I feel this would be the most difficult lens to view the families through because there can be many barriers. I could have personal barriers and beliefs that may prevent progression into a spiritual lens. Not that the spiritual lens is centered on religion, but it could have religious connotations to the person who is utilizing that
What is your own vision of family nursing?
What from your readings “resonates” with your own personal thoughts on family nursing?
Kaakinen, et al (2015) identified family health care nursing as providing healthcare needs to families that are within the nurses scope of practice and is intended to address all four approaches of viewing a family to treat the family as a whole (p.8).
My personal view of what family nursing is, and what the expected outcome should be, coincide with treating the family as a whole. I mean this is the ultimate form of patient centered care. It incorporates all aspects of a person’s culture, views, support systems, and identifies potential barriers …show more content…
There is really only one instance that I can think of in which this type of interaction occurred and went beyond the primary person being treated. My grandmother developed Alzheimer’s when I was about 11 years old. Her progression from early onset Alzheimer’s to late stage Alzheimer’s occurred rather quickly. I remember our family doctor at the time was worried about how our family was adjusting to the recent changes in my grandma’s health. If my grandmother had an appointment or if one of us had to go in for a check up, he or the nurse would always ask how we doing and how were coping with my grandma’s illness. This to me describes the family as a system approach in family nursing, because they assessed both direct and indirect aspects of the patient’s family along with the patient simultaneously (Kaakinen, et al., 2015, …show more content…
Doane and Varcoe describes an additional (spiritual) lens. Through which lens do you think it will be the easiest to view the families you will be encountering?
Which will be the most difficult?
I feel the lens that would be the easiest to view the families I will be working with would probably include the family as context and as a system. The context lens, the patient is at the forefronts, which is ultimately how we streamline care in clinical and acute care settings (Kaakinen, et al., 2015, p.11). In the system lens, the family and the patient are assessed together as a whole and care is modified to increase functionality within the group (Kaakinen, et al., 2015, p.10).
Doane, H., and Varcoe, C., (2005) define spirituality as the ability to move past transcendence the logical and the rational, and seeing beyond the objective, interperative, and contextual aspects of a persons life (p.78). I feel this would be the most difficult lens to view the families through because there can be many barriers. I could have personal barriers and beliefs that may prevent progression into a spiritual lens. Not that the spiritual lens is centered on religion, but it could have religious connotations to the person who is utilizing that