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INTRODUCTION A.

OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY Community Health Nursing is a unique blend of nursing and public health practice woven into a human service that properly developed and applied has tremendous impact on human well-being. Its responsibilities extend to the care and supervision of individuals and families in their home, in places of work, in schools and clinics. It is one of the basic services of health departments. The community health nurses, as members of the health team, are expected to integrate within the context of family health care, the priority programs of the Department of Health. Everyone has his own definition of what is a family. The meaning of family is different to every one of us. All definitions adapt to all families. A universal family is a nuclear family. The family consists of adults of both sexes who are married the adults have biological children and socializes them. By socializing their children they are transmitting the culture of their generation to their children. The family helps bring about harmony and integration in society. Other institutions have nowadays taken on these functions. Children are usually the reflection of their parents. They carry on whatever they learn from their parents onto their own. Children need the love and care from both parents, so they will not feel incomplete. It takes two to have children, and those two should raise the child together with all the love they have to offer. The family s major roles are to protect and socialize its members. Among the many functions it serves, of prime importance is the role of the family plays in providing emotional support and security to its members through love, acceptance, concern, and nurturing. In addition to providing an emotionally safe environment for members to thrive and grow, the family is also a basic unit of physical protection and safety. This is accomplished by meeting the basic needs of its members: food, clothing, and shelter. Provision of a physically safe environment requires knowledge, skills, and economic resources. The adult members through employment secure the economic resources needed by the family. I chose this family because they fit the required criteria for the family case study such as the family income is below eight thousand, family that has 7 members with child aged from zero to five years old. This family has the income of three thousand eight hundred a month; they are seven in the family; the parents, the couple and their three single children. The objective of the study is to smooth the progress of putting into practice of family-oriented nursing care and make certain an organized approach in the delivery of the nursing services to the families in the community, purposely in the application of nursing process. It aims to identify health problem of a family within the community. As student nurses, we could give and apply some nursing interventions that are applicable and attainable within the community health services. Also to offer some health teaching strategies for our clients such as:

1.) Visit the health center in their Barangay as a way maintaining health status of the family. 2.) How the environment affects such problem that the family experiencing and, 3.) How can a member of the family team help the family to deal with such problems? On the later part the actual implementation and health teachings is given means on setting up and evaluating the care at the family level. And lastly, to show and document the array of services that nurses provide at the family level.

B. SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY This study focuses to the prevention of health problems, and promotion of health. The scopes of this study are as follows: 1. The family must be a resident of Zone 4, Baikingon CDOC. 2. The family must be assessed and cared for by the student in-charge for at least 6 visits. 3. The students must have the consent coming from the family to make them the subject of the study. 4. The scope of the study includes the family member s personal and health profile and spot map of their residence, the chief complain of the family member with a health problem and the family members, the history of present illness of the member with a health problem, the nursing assessment, the family coping index, the integrated management of childhood illness, the family health plans and the actual implementation of different interventions given to the family. 5. The different references were also part of this study, which encompasses the use of the different community health nursing books, nursing care plan books and other sources which served as guide throughout the study.