Health Risks and Family Nursing: Community - Fundamentals of Nursing | @LevelUpRN
Summary
TLDRIn this video, Ellis from Level Up RN discusses health risks across the lifespan and family nursing. Key topics include health risks for infants, children, adolescents, and adults under 65, emphasizing the importance of family education to mitigate these risks. The video also introduces family systems theory, explaining how changes in one family member affect the whole unit, and discusses tools like genograms and ecomaps for assessing family health and relationships.
Takeaways
- 👶 Health risks for infants include congenital defects, being preterm, low birth weight, SIDS, and accidental injuries like suffocation.
- 👪 Priority family teaching for infants focuses on prenatal care, breastfeeding benefits, and sleep safety, including putting babies on their backs to sleep.
- 👧 Health risks for children involve accidental injuries related to sports, choking, drowning, and childhood obesity.
- 🚗 Family teaching for children emphasizes car seat safety, protective gear for sports, healthy eating, exercise, and keeping up with immunizations.
- 🧑🎓 Adolescent health risks encompass mental health disorders, substance use, smoking, motor vehicle accidents, and STIs.
- 🛑 Family teaching for adolescents includes safe sex practices, motor vehicle safety, avoiding risky behaviors like texting while driving, and monitoring for substance abuse and mental health.
- 🧑💼 Adults up to 65 face increased chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental illnesses, obesity, and various types of cancer.
- 👩⚕️ Patient teaching for adults includes preventative care, annual wellness exams, self-examinations, and screenings like mammograms or prostate cancer screenings.
- 🏋️♀️ Healthy lifestyle choices are recommended for adults, such as weight-bearing exercises for those at higher risk of osteoporosis.
- 👨👩👧👦 The family systems theory views the family as an interdependent unit where changes or stressors affecting one member impact the entire family.
- 📊 Assessment tools like genograms and ecomaps help visualize family health history and relationships, respectively, to identify potential risks and support needs.
Q & A
What is the main focus of the video script provided?
-The main focus of the video script is to discuss health risks across the lifespan and family nursing, specifically targeting community health nursing.
What are the two cards discussed in the script?
-The two cards discussed are 'health risks across the lifespan' and 'family nursing', which are part of the community health section of the fundamentals flashcard deck.
Why is family teaching emphasized in community health nursing?
-Family teaching is emphasized because a primary role of the nurse is to be an educator, and providing family teaching can decrease the incidence of health risks faced by children and pediatric patients.
What are the health risks specific to infants mentioned in the script?
-Health risks specific to infants include congenital defects, being preterm or having a low birth weight, experiencing sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), accidental injuries, and suffocation.
What is the priority family teaching for infants?
-Priority family teaching for infants includes prenatal care, the benefits of breastfeeding, and a focus on sleep safety, such as putting the baby on its back for all sleep.
What are the health risks specific to children?
-Health risks specific to children include accidental injuries related to sports or activities, choking, drowning, and childhood obesity.
What are the key family teaching tips related to health risks faced by children?
-Key family teaching tips include car seat safety, protective equipment for sports, healthy eating, physical activity or exercise, and staying up-to-date on immunizations.
What are the health risks specific to adolescents?
-Adolescent health risks include mental health disorders, substance use, smoking, motor vehicle accidents, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
What is the family systems theory as defined in the script?
-The family systems theory posits that a family is an interdependent unit where what happens to one person, whether it's a change or a stressor, is going to have an impact on the rest of the family unit.
What tools are mentioned in the script for assessing families?
-The tools mentioned for assessing families are the genogram, which is a graphic representation of a family tree, and the ecomap, which highlights the relationships between individual family members and outside systems.
Why are transitions a period of increased risk in family nursing?
-Transitions are a period of increased risk because they can be normal life events or unexpected events that can cause stress or change within the family unit, potentially affecting the health and well-being of family members.
What is the next topic to be covered in the video series?
-The next topic to be covered in the video series is community health plans and community assessment.
Outlines
👶 Health Risks Across the Lifespan
Ellis from Level Up RN discusses health risks across different age groups, starting with infants who face risks like congenital defects, being preterm, low birth weight, SIDS, and accidental injuries. Family teaching is emphasized to reduce these risks, focusing on prenatal care, breastfeeding benefits, and sleep safety. For children, health risks include accidental injuries from sports and activities, choking, drowning, and childhood obesity. Family teaching involves car seat safety, protective gear for sports, promoting healthy eating and exercise, and keeping up with immunizations. Adolescents face mental health disorders, substance use, smoking, motor vehicle accidents, and STIs. Teaching for this group includes safe sex practices, motor vehicle safety, and monitoring for substance abuse and mental health issues. Adults up to 65 are at risk for chronic diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental illnesses, obesity, and various cancers. Family teaching for adults focuses on preventative care, annual wellness exams, self-examinations, and healthy lifestyle choices.
👨👩👧👦 Family Nursing and Assessment Tools
The second paragraph delves into family nursing, starting with the family systems theory which views the family as an interdependent unit where changes or stressors affect the entire family. Ellis introduces tools for assessing families, such as the genogram, which graphically represents a family tree and can depict medical or health history, and the ecomap, which illustrates relationships within the family and with external systems. The discussion highlights that transitions, both normal life events and unexpected events, can increase health risks and should be considered in family assessments.
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Keywords
💡Health risks across the lifespan
💡Family teaching
💡Infant health risks
💡Adolescent health risks
💡Preventative care
💡Family systems theory
💡Genogram
💡Ecomap
💡Chronic diseases
💡Transition periods
Highlights
Introduction to health risks across the lifespan and family nursing, focusing on infants, children, adolescents, and adults.
Infant health risks include congenital defects, preterm birth, low birth weight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), and accidental injuries like suffocation.
Priority family teaching for infants emphasizes prenatal care, benefits of breastfeeding, and sleep safety, specifically placing the baby on its back for all sleep.
Health risks for children include accidental injuries related to sports or physical activities, choking, drowning, and childhood obesity.
Family teaching for children includes car seat safety, protective equipment for sports, healthy eating, physical activity, and staying up-to-date on immunizations.
Adolescent health risks involve mental health disorders, substance use, smoking, motor vehicle accidents, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
Family teaching for adolescents covers safe sex practices, motor vehicle safety (e.g., wearing seat belts and avoiding texting while driving), and monitoring for substance abuse and mental health issues.
Adults (up to age 65) face health risks like chronic diseases, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental illness, obesity, and various cancers.
Reproductive health risks for females include breast cancer, menopause, and osteoporosis, while males face risks of prostate and testicular cancer.
Family teaching for adults emphasizes preventative care, wellness exams, self-examinations (e.g., breast or testicular exams), and cancer screenings (e.g., mammograms, prostate exams).
Introduction to family nursing, focusing on the family systems theory, which views the family as an interdependent unit where changes or stressors impact all members.
The genogram is a graphic representation of a family tree that highlights family health patterns across three generations.
The ecomap is another assessment tool that illustrates relationships between family members and outside systems such as work, school, or extended family.
Key nursing consideration: life transitions, whether expected (e.g., birth or graduation) or unexpected (e.g., job loss, divorce), increase family stress.
The video ends with review questions on family teaching for children's health risks, adolescent health risks, and defining family systems theory.
Transcripts
Hi, I'm Ellis with Level Up RN. We're going to continue our discussion on community
health nursing by moving into health risks across the lifespan, which covers two cards,
as well as family nursing. These cards are found in the community health section of
our fundamentals flashcard deck. If you have that deck, you can grab these cards
and follow along with me. If you don't have the deck, be sure to check us out at leveluprn.com.
After we review the content on the cards, hang tight because I have some questions to test
your knowledge. Let's get started with health risks across the lifespan, and this is simply
breaking the lifespan up into age ranges and identifying health risks faced by each age range.
Especially when we're talking about individuals under 18, infants, children and adolescents,
we also are going to point out the important family teaching aspects, right? A primary role
of the nurse is to be an educator. And if we can provide family teaching to decrease the incidence
of these health risks faced by these children and pediatric patients, then we absolutely want to
make sure that we're doing that. So we'll start at the beginning of the lifespan with infants.
Health risks specific to infants include congenital defects, being preterm or having a
low birth weight, experiencing sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS, as well as accidental injuries,
one of which being suffocation. So priority family teaching is going to include prenatal care,
the benefits of breastfeeding, and then a focus and emphasis on sleep safety,
part of which being make sure that we put the baby on its back for all sleep.
Health risks specific to children also includes accidental injuries, but these ones are going
to be more related to sports or being active, so bicycles and skateboards, and also though includes
things like choking and drowning. Children also have a health risk for childhood obesity.
Important family teaching includes car seat safety, wearing protective equipment for sports
or biking like helmets. It's also going to include healthy eating and exercise discussions and then
making sure that the children stay up-to-date on their immunizations. Health risks specific
to adolescents include mental health disorders, substance use, smoking, motor vehicle accidents,
and STIs. Family teaching for adolescents is going to include safe sex practices and/or abstinence,
motor vehicle safety like wearing your seat belt, and don't text and drive or drink and drive,
or anything like that. It also is going to include monitoring for substance abuse and mental health
issues. The final age range I'll cover in this section is going to be adults, and these are
adults up to the age of 65. We actually have a whole nother section that is just for the older
adult, and if you're looking for content on that, make sure to check those videos out. But for now,
I'm just going to chat about the health risks faced by the average adult to the age of 65-ish.
The health risks faced by this group is simply additional chronic diseases because as one ages,
one is more likely to develop something. These diseases include things like cardiovascular
disease, diabetes, mental illnesses, obesity, as well as different types of cancers.
There are also a variety of reproductive health issues that are, of course,
going to be dependent based on the reproductive organs that one possesses. So patients who are
female have just generic reproductive health issues. They'll also experience menopause,
and they have higher incidences of breast cancer and osteoporosis. Patients who are male are going
to have health risks that include prostate and testicular cancer. Patient teaching for this age
range includes a focus on preventative care, so annual wellness exams and then educating
patients on self-examinations depending on what reproductive organs they have for things like
breast self-exams or testicular self-exams. We can also recommend and refer screenings dependent
on the patient again, and these include things like mammograms or prostate cancer screenings.
And we're also going to chat about healthy lifestyle choices. For example, we might
recommend weight-bearing exercises for individuals at higher risk of developing osteoporosis.
Now that we've covered health risks across the lifespan, let's transition into family nursing.
And to begin, we'll chat about the family systems theory because it's important to understand the
family as a whole is sometimes our patient. The family systems theory posits that a family is an
interdependent unit. They're all connected to each other, and so what happens to one person,
whether it's a change or a stressor, is going to have an impact on the rest of the family unit.
There are different tools that we can use to assess families, whether that is their health
and health history or their relationships with each other or the outside world.
The first tool is the genogram. A genogram is a graphic representation of a family tree,
and it usually covers three generations. It can and is often used to depict medical or health
history so that we can recognize patterns. The CDC does offer a way to build a genogram. It's called
My Family Portrait. A second assessment tool is an ecomap. An ecomap is a diagram that highlights the
relationships between individual family members as well as outside systems like school or work or
extended family members. And a key point to remember when working with families is that
transitions are a period of increased risk. And these transitions can be normal life events like
the birth of a child or graduating high school, but it can also be unexpected events like the loss
of a family member, the loss of a job, or divorce. And that wraps up the content for this video,
so just hang tight and I'm going to ask you a couple of questions to check your knowledge.
List at least three key family teaching tips that are related to health risks faced by children.
Family teaching for health risks specific to children includes car seat safety,
protective equipment for sports, healthy eating, physical activity or exercise,
and staying up-to-date on immunizations. Identify a health risk specific to adolescents.
Adolescent health risks include mental health disorders, substance use, smoking,
motor vehicle accidents, and STIs. Define the family systems theory.
The family is an interdependent unit, so a change or stressor faced by one individual
is felt by the entire family. Thank you so much for studying with me. I hope you learned
something. In my next video, we'll be moving on to community health plans and a community assessment.
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