Family Nursing Approaches

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Approaches to Family Nursing
For the purpose of this paper I will be discussing different experiences I have had as a nurse when using different approaches to family nursing. The four different approaches to family nursing are: family as context, family as client, family as a system, and family as a component of society. Each approach has foundations rooted in different nursing specialties such as family as context is rooted in maternal/child nursing, family as client is used in primary care nursing, family as a system is seen in mental health nursing and family as a component of society is used in community health nursing. With that being said, all approaches can be used in different settings and one approach is not set in stone for a certain …show more content…

When I was a nursing student I saw a lot of family dynamics and the nurses would have to respond to all family members if they were in visiting the patient. One day during clinical I was working alongside a nurse and we had a patient who was going to be discharged to home with hospice care. The patient was widowed, had three daughters and one son, all who were very involved. When it came time to discharge the patient, the nurse and I went into the room to explain that hospice home care would be coming to the house, double check they had the home set up for hospice et cetera. It was at this point that the son finally broke down and cried and started to deny that the patient would eventually pass away once they brought the patient home. One of the daughters also started to cry, the nurse I was with immediately stopped giving discharge instructions to attend to the family members who were breaking down. The other siblings also gathered to comfort the two siblings who were extremely emotional. The nurse remained calm, allowed the family to grieve and to express their emotions for as long as it took. The nurse took the time to explain hospice in simple terms and why hospice is a wonderful option for their loved one. As nurses, we have to take into consideration that not all family members react to illness the same. Grief is one emotion that people will react differently to, grief may or may not be expressed the same among family members, just because all four siblings shared the same parent does not mean that all four are going to break down and grieve the same (Hayslip & Page, 2013). We need to respect the was not only the patient may grieve for their illness, but also for the way a family may or may not react to a family members

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