Family Health

When considering nursing practice for families, there is a tendency to think of the family as a static entity, existing as it is when first encountered -- and as frequently described in this paper. But families are not static; they evolve as people change and age. For any nurse who is fortunate enough to provide services to a family over a period of years, the challenge is to ensure the focus of care is appropriate to the changing needs of family members (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). For example, delivering healthcare to a family during the period from 2000 through 2013 would require a practitioner to navigate some of the most extreme socioeconomic shifts experienced in several generations. The implications for healthcare are substantive when people loose significant percentage of their accumulated wealth, or when they lose their job, or when any number of variables that diminish the circumstances...
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