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This chapter shows the illustration of the home visits done by the student nurses
to their chosen family, these includes the interactions such as the assessment, planning,
implementation and evaluation.
ESTABLISHING RAPPORT
OBSERVATIONS AND GATHERING FAMILY
INFORMATION
The student nurses then started the interview about the Demographic profile of
each of the family members. The student nurses also gathered the information about the
socio-economic status of the family. The group also gathered the vital signs of every
individual in the family. After the accumulation of information, they gave some simple
health teachings.
When all their planned activities for the day were accomplished, the student nurses
informed the family that they had to go and shall come back for the continuation of the
Family Case Analysis.
SECOND HOME VISIT (NOVEMBER 24, 2017) – FRIDAY
The Soda Family is therefore equipped with enough knowledge about problems
they have identified together with the student nurse. This day marks the last day of home
visit with the adopted family and the student nurses are confidently leaving the Soda
Family. They evaluated the outcome of their interventions and they expressed their token
of appreciation for letting the student nurses conduct their family case analysis. With that,
they reinforced their teachings and went with their final goodbyes. The family showed
satisfaction and appreciation for what the student nurses are doing.
As a summary of the home visits, the student nurses started their family case
analysis by looking for a family in the community. They established a good working
relationship, with the family which enabled the students to know more about them and
enabled them to see the problems, intervene and give health teachings for the
improvement of the family’s living and health condition.