Family Nursing Background and
Understandings DQ
Family Nursing Background and Understandings DQ
1. What are the barriers/challenges described in your readings
that you also face in your environments as you attempt to provide
family focused nursing? (e.g. family as client, family as context,
family as barrier, family as caring process, family as resource)
2. Review the power point: “Family Nursing Background and
Understandings.” Reflect on nursing practice that views family as
the unit of care and nursing practice that views family as
contextual to the individual patient. Do you believe that current
nursing practice most often views family as the unit of care or
family as a context to the situation? How do these two views differ.
3. Develop 5 questions focusing on one of Denham’s Core
Processes. Interview a client in your workplace or within your
community and describe their answers to your questions. Identify
family routines and factors related to family health routines.
4. From the Khalili article, what were the most significant aspects
of the illness transition for the family? What resources did the
family need/want? What were the barriers and facilitators to
obtaining the needed resources or supports? What may have
changed in the care situation for the family if the family would
have been viewed as the unit of care?

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