Community health nursing

  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 with the student nurses the key concepts about the theoretical basis for family health. The students are being asked questions about family characteristics and the stages of the family life cycle. 1. What are the five universal family characteristics that community health nurses must recognize and consider in their practice? 2. What are five attributes of families as social systems that help explain how families function? 3. 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? 4. What are the six basic functions of a family?