TYPOLOGY OF NURSING PROBLEMS IN FAMILY NURSING PRACTICE

I. Wellness Condition

A. Potential for Enhanced Capability for:

1. Healthy life style-ex nutrition/diet, exercise/activity

2. Health maintenance/health management

3. Parenting

4. Breast feeding

5. Spiritual well-being

6. others (specify)

B. Readiness for enhanced capability for:

1. Healthy life style-ex nutrition/diet, exercise/activity

2. Health maintenance/health management

3. Parenting

4. Breast feeding

5. Spiritual well-being

6. others (specify)

II. Health Threat

A. Presence of risk factors of specific disease (lifestyle diseases, metabolic syndrome)

B. Threat of cross infection from a communicable disease case

C. Family size beyond what family resources can adequately provide

D. Accident hazards. Specify:

1. broken stairs

2. pointed/sharp objects, poisons, and medicines improperly kept

3. fire hazards
4. fall hazards

5. others (specify)

E. Faulty /unhealthful nutritional eating habits or feeding techniques practices. Specify:

1. inadequate food intake both in quality and quantity

2. excessive intake of certain nutrients

3. faulty eating habits

4. ineffective breastfeeding

5. faulty feeding techniques

F. Stress provoking factors. Specify:

1. strained marital relationship

2. strained parent-sibling relationship

3. interpersonal conflicts between family members

4. care-giving burden

G. Poor home/environmental condition/sanitation. Specify:

1. inadequate living space

2. lack of storage facilities

3. polluted water supply

4. presence of breeding or resting sites of vectors of diseases (mosquitoes, flies,

roaches, rodents, etc.)

5. improper garbage/refuse disposal

6.unsanitary waste disposal

7. improper drainage system

8. poor lighting and ventilation

9. noise pollution

10. air pollution

H. Unsanitary food handling and preparation

I. Unhealthful lifestyle and personal habits/practices. Specify:

1. alcohol drinking

2. cigarette/tobacco smoking

3. walking barefooted or inadequate footwear

4. eating raw meat or fish

5. poor personal hygiene

6. self-medication/substance abuse

7. sexual promiscuity

8. engaging in dangerous sports

9. inadequate rest or sleep

10. lack of/inadequate exercise/physical activity

11. lack of/inadequate relaxation activities

12. non-use of self-protection measures (e.g. non-use of bed nets in malaria and

filariasis areas)

J. Inherent personal characteristic- e.g. poor impulse control

K. Health history which may participate/induce the occurrence of a health deficit, e.g. previous

history of difficult labor

M. Lack of immunization/inadequate immunization status specially of children

N. Family disunity- e.g.

1. self-oriented behavior of members

2. unresolved conflicts of members

3. intolerable disagreement

O. Others, specify;
III. Health Deficit

A. Illness state, regardless of whether it is diagnosed or undiagnosed by medical practitioner

B. Failure to thrive /develop according to normal rate

C. Disability-whether congenital or arising from illness; transient/temporary (e.g. aphasia or

temporary paralysis after a CVA) or permanent (e.g. leg amputation secondary to diabetes,

blindness from measles, lameness from polio)

IV. Stress Points/Foreseeable Crisis Situation

A. Marriage

B. Pregnancy, labor, puerperium

C. Parenthood

D. Additional member-e.g. newborn, lodger

E. Abortion

F. Entrance at school

G. Adolescence

H. Divorce or separation

I. Menopause

J. Loss of job

K. Hospitalization of a family member

L. Death of a member

M. Resettlement

N. Illegitimacy

O. Others, specify;