The document outlines an introduction to home visiting as a service delivery strategy for supporting expectant parents and parents of young children. It emphasizes a two-generational approach, principles of effective home visiting, advantages, and the structured steps involved in the process. The focus is on building relationships, addressing family needs, and enhancing the overall caregiving experience.

1. Introduction to Home Visiting
By
Naureen Fazal
Lecturer DION&M

2. Objectives
 At the completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Define homes visiting
2. Discuss the principles, purposes and advantages of
HomeVisiting in community
3. Describe the steps of HomeVisiting

3. Home visiting
 Home visiting is a service delivery strategy that
traditionally matched expectant parents and parents of
young children with a designated support person typically
a trained nurse, social worker, or early childhood specialist.
 Home visiting focus turned from child-centered to a two-
generational approach in which the home visitor works
with parents on self-improvement and goal setting while
also focusing on the children.These home-visiting
programs see the nuclear family as a whole, so they also
address relational problems and conflicts.

4. Principles of Home visiting
 Should be planned with purpose & beneficial to patient.
 It should be according to the need of the client.
 Regular and flexible.
 It should be educative.
 Build positive nurse-patient relationship.
 Nurse should respect the patient’s right.
 Visit should be record in diary.

5. Advantages of Home Visiting
 It is an excellent opportunity to implement NCP.
 Provide opportunity to study home and family situation.
 Proper home visiting build good image of nursing.
 Build positive relationship.
 It clarify the doubts raised by family members.
 It help the nurse & family to modify the ways of their care.
 Convenient for pt.
 It provide natural environment for the discussion of concerns and needs.

6. Steps of home visiting
1- Initial Step:
In this phase CHN clarifies the source of referral &
purpose of the visit.
2- Pre-Visit Activities:
Collect prior information about the family culture,
values and surroundings.
Review family records and determines family
willingness for visit.

7. Continue…
3- Activities During homeVisit:
Build Rapport and good relation with
client & family.
Assess needs and plan NCP according
to it.
4- Termination phase:
It is occurred when;
i. Nurse patient goal are reached.
ii. Pt change his residence.
iii. The transfer the pt care to another
nurse.

8. Continue…
5- PostVisit Activities:
In this stage nurse record the visit and plan for next.

10. References
 Baswanthapa 2nd
eddition Page 137.