Typology of Nursing Practice

• First Level Assessment is a process whereby existing and potential health conditions or problems of the family are determined.
• Category of Health Conditions/Problems includes Wellness state/s, Health Threats, conditions conducive to disease, accident or failure to realize one’s health potential, Health deficits, instances of failure in health maintenance, Stress points or foreseeable crisis situations, and anticipates periods of unusual demand on the individual or family in terms of adjustments/resources.
• Second Level Assessment involves the nature or type of nursing problems that the family encounters in performing the health tasks with respect to a given health condition or problem, and the etiology or barriers to the family’s assumption of the tasks.
• The Scale for Ranking Health Problems according to Priorities includes Wellness state, Health Threat, Health Deficit, and Foreseeable Crisis.
• Nature of the Problem Presented can be categorized as a Health Threat, Health Deficit or Foreseeable Crisis.
• Modifiability of the Problem refers to the probability of success in minimizing, alleviating or totally eradicating the problem through health intervention.
• Preventive Potential refers to the nature and magnitude of the future problem that can be minimized or totally prevented if intervention is done in the problem.
• Salience refers to the family perception & evaluation of the problem in terms of seriousness & urgency of attention needed.
• To determine the score for Salience, the nurse evaluates the family’s perception of a problem.
• As a general rule, the family’s concerns and felt needs require priority attention.