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.

1. Family Health
Services
Dr. Rahul B. Pandit
Faculty of Nursing
Sassoon General Hospital, Pune
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit

2. 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.
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit

3. Introduction
 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,
economical and health system.
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit

4. Terminology
 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.
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit

5. Terminology
 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.
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6. Terminology
 Family process: The ongoing interaction
between family members through which
they accomplish their instrumental and
expressive tasks.
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7. Terminology
 Family centered nursing: Nursing that
considers health of the family as a unit in
addition to the health of individual family
members.
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8. Definition
 Family Health Services can be defined as
possessing abilities and resources to
accomplish family development tasks. It is
a special attention which is given to family
members to promote their health, prevent
from health problems and for the welfare
of family.
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9. Aim
 Reducing maternal mortality, morbidity
and infant mortality rate
 Spacing birth of children
 Solve problem of malnutrition in family
 Health education.
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10. Objectives
 To identify health & nursing needs and
problems of each family.
 To ensure family’s understanding and
acceptance of these needs and problems.
 To plan and provide health and nursing
services with the active participation of
family members.
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit

11. Objectives
 To help families develop abilities to deal
with their health needs and health
problems independently.
 To contribute to family’s performance of
developmental functions and tasks.
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12. Objectives
 To help family make intelligent use of
promotive, preventive, therapeutic and
rehabilitative health and allied facilities
and services in the community.
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13. Objectives
 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.
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14. Principles
 Provide services without discrimination.
 Periodic and continuous appraisal and
evaluation of family health situation.
 Proper maintenance of record and reports.
 Provide continuous services.
 Maintain good IPR.
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit

15. Principles
 Health education, guidance and
supervision as integral part of family
health nursing.
 Plan and provide family health nursing
with active participation of family.
 Services should be realistic in terms of
resources available.
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16. Principles
 Encourage family to contribute towards
community health.
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17. Advantages
 Family health nursing of patients saves
hospital beds that can be utilized for critical
cases.
 Family health nursing is cheaper than
hospital nursing.
 Patient under family health nursing enjoys
privacy and emotional support.
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18. Advantages
 Patients on family health nursing can
continue with their routine pursuits.
 If the patient resides in a sanitary house,
family health nursing is better than
hospital nursing since he can control
inimical environmental influences better.
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19. Disadvantages
 Family health nursing requires the nurse
to carry portable laboratory machinery to
the patent’s home.
 If the patient resides in a substandard
house, family health nursing could delay
his recovery.
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20. 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.
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21. Family Health Nursing Process
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
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22. Elements Of Family Nursing Process
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit
A Delicious Pie
A -
Assessment
D -
Diagnosis
P -
Planning
I -
Implement
ation
E -
Evaluation

23. Elements Of Family Nursing Process
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit
 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.

24. Elements Of Family Nursing Process
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 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

25. Role of Nurse in family Health
1. Care provider
2. Educator
3. Coordinator & Collaborator
4. Advocate
5. Consultant
6. Counselor
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26. Role of Nurse in family Health
7. Environmental modifier
8. Researcher
9. Case manager
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27. Qualities Of Family Health Nurse
Dr. Rahul Bhausaheb Pandit
Family centered
approach
Holistic approach
(wellness)
Non judgemental
during approach
Accepting different
values & beliefs
Self awareness
Able to work in
adverse conditions
Flexible
Sensitive towards
time & efforts
Skillful
Independent &
positive attitude
Able to cope &
manage stress
Able to handle
situation
Terminate
relationship with
family

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