Family Nursing Process

• Family Nursing Process


  The blueprint of the care that nurse designs to minimize or eliminate identified health and family nursing problems
• Typology of Nursing Problem

  • A tool or classification of family nursing problems (level 1 assessment)
  • reflects family status and capabilities as functioning unit (level 2 assessment)
• 3 types of health problems

  • Health Deficit- disabled, failure to thrive
  • Health Threat- leads to---
  • Foreseeable Crisis or stress point- unusual demand
• First Level of assessment

  presence of health deficit

  • Illness states
  • Failure to thrive/ develop
  • Disability
• Foreseeable Crisis/ Stress Point

  • Marriage
  • Pregnancy, labor, pueperium
  • Parenthood
  • Additional member
  • Abortion
  • Entrance at school
  • Adolescence
  • Divorce or separation
  • Menopause
  • Loss of Job
  • Hospitalization of a family member
• Health Threats


  1. Family hereditary disease
  2. Threat of cross infection
  3. Family size beyond what family resources can adequately provide
  4. Accident hazards
  5. Stress Provoking Factors
  6. Poor home/ Environmental Condition/ Sanitation
• 4 criteria


  1. Nature of condition or problem- categorized into wellness state
  2. Modifiability of the problem- refers to the probability of success in minimizing, alleviation or totally eradicating the problem
  3. Preventive potential- future problems that can be minimized
  4. Salience- family's perception and evaluation the problem