The Family Health System as an Emerging Paradigmatic View for Nursing

1 March 1992

journal article
review article
Published by Wiley in Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Vol. 24 (1) , 57-63
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1547-5069.1992.tb00700.x

Abstract

This paper explores the phenomena of family health from a nursing perspective by examining the view of health in the discipline of nursing, and the view of family health in multiple disciplines. A holistic definition of family health for nursing is proposed which includes five realms of family experience which make up the family health system. The proposed classification is offered as a beginning heuristic model to organize knowledge generation for use in the practice of family nursing.

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