Family as a client
Complete the following case study. Your response should be a minimum of 250 words and include two peer-reviewed nursing or medical journals from the last five years. You may use your textbook, but it should not substitute for one of your scholarly references. Include a title page, in-text citations and a reference page in APA format. Refer to the case study grading rubric for guidance. You must answer each question included in the case study.
Case Study:
The family as the unit of service has received increasing emphasis in nursing over the years. Today, family nursing has an important place in nursing practice, particularly in community health nursing. The community health nurse is reviewing the key concepts about the theoretical basis for family health. Answer the following question about family characteristics and the stages of the family life cycle.
- What are the five universal family characteristics that community health nurses must recognize? How can community nurses incorporate these into their practice>?
- Choose two of the five attributes of families as social systems and explain how they relate to family functioning.
- The community health nurse is sitting in a living room talking with a young mother about her new infant. Which stage in the family life cycle is this young mother with a new infant in? Support your answer.
- What are the six basic functions of a family?
Scholarly Writing:
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- Write in third person (Avoid I, me, my)
- Times New Roman 12 font
- Double-space with 1-inch margins on all sides
- Indent the first line of each paragraph
- Use APA formatting for citations and references (See APA Quick Start Guide)
- Use upper and lower case
- Accurate spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Include page numbers
