Family Values

Family Values

Family in a human context is a group of people that shared a common values and goals. In family nursing, the nurses work together with individuals, family subsystems, and the whole family society. It is important that all family perspective must be kept in mind in working with the families. In this paper, you will see the importance of family, family support, family systems, family concepts, and family nursing theory. Also about the family support in surgery department.

Family Values

Family is a term that can be interpreted differently by every individual, as it defines itself by one’s personal experiences and expectations. In health care, one would define family as a support system to an individual in a state of compromised health. The family role in the health care setting can vary based on the patient’s condition. In the surgery department, the family plays a large role especially for those surgery patients that loose their ability to provide self care decision like signing their own consent for their procedures. As a health care provider, it is important to understand the role of family system, family concept, and the application of an appropriate family nursing theory.

Family System and Concept

For a family system to have a positive role in the surgery department, the family must serve as a system in support to the individual family member. The family often plays a role in the plan of care. In some cases, the surgery patient cannot play a role of self-care decisions. The family can play a role in the individual’s recovery by coming together as one to support patient in healing and achieving individual health goals.

All individuals and health care provider in the surgery department play a role in taking care of surgery patients together with their family support. In patients that is going for surgery, they have fear and the support of the family is important. patient’s that doesn’t have the ability for self care decisions, family are needed. For example, the individual needs a certain procedure that can save their life but doesn’t have the ability to sign their own surgery consent in order for the health care provider to do the procedure, the family of the individual can sign their consent for them. The health care provider is going to explain everything to the family, in order for the health care provider to proceed in the procedure. According to a study completed by Caroline Williams; the family plays a larger role than providing information about the individual; including emotional support to the patient, and a positive psychological effect (Williams, 2005).

In the situation which a family members health is compromised to the level that they need to be in the other unit after the surgery or procedure, not only does the family need to come together to serve as a support for