Family Nursing Case Study

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In this paper I will report on the four approaches to family nursing: family as context, family as client, family as system, family as component of society. I will incorporate my professional and/or personal involvement in each area. I will illustrate how my involvement in each area helped to empower my patients, and also empower me as a professional. This past week I was called in into work to perform an emergency urological procedure on a 23 year old female, single parent, who gave birth about six weeks prior; in a pinch situation I was able to enlist the family as concept approach . The patient presented in the emergency room with severe left flank pain, Cat Scan studies revealed, left renal calculi she was otherwise healthy with no underlying …show more content…

My area of nursing practice does not expose me to this type of care. However, within my extended family I had a nephew who suffered from a substance abuse addiction to heroin, I therefore, was able to experience second-hand this intervention . He developed this addiction while away at college, and battled with it for four years. This illness had a profound effect on his family, his parents constant efforts of putting him in detoxification and rehabilitation programs, usually had pour outcomes. His father developed gastric ulcers, his mother developed Irritable Bowel Syndrome and diverticulitis, and both required medical intervention. His older brother was having psychological issues that impacted his wife and child, he needed to disconnect himself from his brother for the sake of his family. My in-laws sought help from support groups to learn how to live with this illness their son had, and still maintain their health. It has been two years since my nephew’s passing and my in-laws are now actively involved with supporting other families of substance abuse victims, one of their main focuses is raising awareness to the importance of family members maintaining their health even at the expense of the ill family member. Substance abuse is a family disease, and it is progressive, addiction affects the stability of the home, the family structure, the mental and physical health of family members, the overall family dynamic (Drug Addiction Treatment,

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