Maternal and Child Nursing Types of family

- Direct service to individuals, mother and 1. Nuclear – composed of husband, wife and
child, their families and community during their immediate children
child birth and child rearing phases of the 2. Extended – usually members of a nuclear
life cycle. family and other blood related people ( such
as grandparents, AUNTS, UNCLES,
Role of a Nurse in caring for childbearing COUSINS)
families 3. Attenuated – Single Parent with children
 Health care provider 4. Incipient – Married Couple with no children
 Teacher 5. Blended - combination of 2 divorced
 Collaborator families through remarriage; may include
 Researcher stepchildren, half siblings, or combinations.
 Manager of care Other types of family:
MCH Principles 1. Traditional Family - autonomous unit in
 Family is the basic unit of society which both parents reside in the home with
 Family represents racial, ethnic, cultural, their children
and socio-economic diversities. 2. Two career (Dual career) - both the
 Children grow both individually and as a husband and the wife are employed.
part of a family 3. Single Parent
4. Adolescent Family - young parents are
Primary Care Is the Focus of Much Attention developmentally, physically, emotionally,
and financially ill- prepared to undertake the
1. Health promotion
responsibility of parenthood.
2. Illness prevention
5. Binuclear Family - post-divorce family
3. Health maintenance
6. Cohabiting (Communal) - unrelated
4. Health restoration and rehabilitation
individuals or families who live under one
5. Responsibility for one’s own health
roof
Primary goal of MCN: 7. Foster Family - couple who provide care
for children whose biological parents can no
 Promotion and maintenance of optimal longer care for them.
family health to ensure optimal childbearing 8. Gay and lesbian
and child rearing 9. Dyad Family /Single Adults Living
Together - individuals who live by
Person - Is otherwise known as an individual
themselves represent a significant portion of
Family - Individuals joined together by marriage, today’s society.
blood, adoption and residence in the same
Family roles and functions:
household
 Nurturance and support
Characteristics of family
 Allocation of resources
- Emotional closeness  Development of life skills
- Sharing  Division of labor
- Support  Socialization of members
 Maintenance of order
  Placement of members in a society
 Safeguarding of motivation and morale

Stages of a Family Life Cycle (Duvall - 1985)

 Married couples (no children)

 Childbearing families
 Families with preschool children
 Families with school-age children
 Families with teenagers
 Families launching young adults
 Middle-aged parents
 Aging family members

Nursing Theorist:

 Faye Abdellah- identification- identify and

correct needs
 Patricia Benner- nurses grow from practice
 Dorothy Johnson- subsystems must remain
on balance
 Imogene King- action, reaction, interaction,
transaction
 Madeleine Leininger- transcultural care
which focus on study and analysis of
cultures with respect to caring behavior
 Florence Nightingale- changing or
structuring the environment
 Betty Neuman- a person is an open system
interacting with env’t
 Dorothea Orem- focus on the individual in
assessing self-care
 Ida Jean Orlando- focus of the nurse is
interaction with the client
 Rosemarie Rizzo Parse- man-living-health
as a single unit
 Hildegard Peplau- promotion of health
 Martha Rogers- move the client toward
optimum health
 Sister Callista Roy- aid the client to adopt
to change brought by the illness