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    The goals of home visits are to promote health, identify needs, and provide interventions tailored to each family's resources. Nurses learn about family dynamics, development, health issues, and access to care. Home visits allow nurses to adapt care based on the family, teach in a familiar environment, and build trust and confidence. There are three phases: pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses safety, applies nursing process, and summarizes; and post-visit documentation. During visits, nurses identify family strengths to build positive relationships and empower problem solving.

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    The goals of home visits are to promote health, identify needs, and provide interventions tailored to each family's resources. Nurses learn about family dynamics, development, health issues, and access to care. Home visits allow nurses to adapt care based on the family, teach in a familiar environment, and build trust and confidence. There are three phases: pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses safety, applies nursing process, and summarizes; and post-visit documentation. During visits, nurses identify family strengths to build positive relationships and empower problem solving.

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    The goals of home visits are to promote health, identify needs, and provide interventions tailored to each family's resources. Nurses learn about family dynamics, development, health issues, and access to care. Home visits allow nurses to adapt care based on the family, teach in a familiar environment, and build trust and confidence. There are three phases: pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses safety, applies nursing process, and summarizes; and post-visit documentation. During visits, nurses identify family strengths to build positive relationships and empower problem solving.

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    The goals of home visits are to promote health, identify needs, and provide interventions tailored to each family's resources. Nurses learn about family dynamics, development, health issues, and access to care. Home visits allow nurses to adapt care based on the family, teach in a familiar environment, and build trust and confidence. There are three phases: pre-visit planning, the in-home visit where the nurse assesses safety, applies nursing process, and summarizes; and post-visit documentation. During visits, nurses identify family strengths to build positive relationships and empower problem solving.

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    Home Visit

    Is a professional, purposeful interaction that takes place in the family’s residence aimed at
    promoting, maintaining, or restoring the health of the family or its members or to identify health
    needs of the family within the community and programs planned to meet those needs, which
    ultimately will benefit a population of families in the future.

    Advantages:
    ✔ Important factors that may influence the home visit include the family’s background
    experience with the health care system. Also seek out previously unidentified needs.
    ✔ learns about the growth and development of members of different ages within a family,
    disease processes, and access to the health care system.
    ✔ It gives an opportunity to adapt interventions according to family resources
    ✔ Nursing students must recognize their strengths and weaknesses in preparation for
    entering a new community and working with families.
    ✔ It promotes family participation and focuses on the family as a unit
    ✔ Teaching family members in the home is made easier by the familiar environment and the
    recognition of the need to learn as they are faced by the actual home situation
    ✔ The personalized nature of a home visit gives the family a sense of confidence in
    themselves and in the agency.

    Phases of a Home Visit

    1. Previsit Phase- The nurse contacts the family, determines the family willingness for a
    home visit, and sets and appointment with them, The home visit plan focuses on
    identified family needs, particularly needs recognized by the family as requiring urgent
    attention.
    Purpose
    a. To have an accurate assessment of the family’s living conditions and adapt
    interventions accordingly
    b. To educate the family about measures for health promotion. Disease prevention and
    control health problems
    c.To prevent the spread of infection among family members and within the community
    To provide supplemental interventions for the sick, disabled or dependent family
    member, and to guide the family on how to give care
    d.To provide the family with greater access to health resources in the community by
    establishing a close relationship with them, providing information and making referrals as
    necessary.

    2. In-Home Phase
    Begins as the nurse seeks permission to enter and the lasts until he or she leaves the
    family’s home. Also bring your nursing bag

    Phases
    a. Initiation- On entering the home, the nurse acknowledge the family members with
    greeting introduces him/herself and the agency he or she represents. Observes
    environment on her/his safety and sits as the family directs him/her to sit. Establish
    rapport
    b. Implementation- Involves application of the nursing process
    c. Termination- Consist of summarizing the event of home visit, setting the next home
    visit and record findings.

    Family Interviewing
    ▪ Identify the following critical components of the family interview: manners, therapeutic
    conservation and questions, family genogram (and ecomap when indicated), and
    commendations. Family theorists and practitioners suggest that, with experience, the
    nurse can accomplish the family interview in 15 minutes.

    Commending Family or Individual Strengths


    ▪ Sharing strengths during each family interview reinforces immediate and long-term
    positive relationships between the nurse and family. Interviews that identify and build on
    family strengths tend to progress to more open and trusting relationships and often allow
    the family to reframe problems, thereby increasing problem solving and healing.

    3. Post visit Phase- Takes place when the nurse has returned to the health facility and involves
    documentation of the visit

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