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Definitions
- Acute Care Setting
- Community Setting
- Empowering Partnership
- Expected Life Events
- Extrafamilial
- Family
- Formal Groups or Organizations
- Informal Support
- Interdisciplinary Care
- Interfamilial Resources
- Intrafamilial Resources
- Long-term Care Facility
- Acute Care Setting:
- An institution providing services to clients with acute needs (physical and psychological). Rehabilitation and palliative care can be a part of the acute care setting.
- Community Setting:
- The care setting is in a community-based building (gathering place) or in the client’s home. Services are provided by either Community Health Nurses (Public Health) or Home Health Nurses. Examples of community settings are a hospice, public health unit, school, church, or temple.
- Empowering Partnership:
- An empowering partnership between a nurse and a family is a collaborative relationship built on mutual respect and trust, as well as the sharing of knowledge, skills and experience. Ultimately, families and nurses are empowered to grow and learn together as partners in the promotion of the health of the family.
- Expected Life Events:
- Life events that are likely to happen. These can include, but are not limited to parenthood, retirement, birth, and death.
- Extrafamilial Resources:
- Those resources that exist or occur outside the family, such as government or community.
- Family:
- Being unique and whomever the person defines as being family. Family members can include, but are not limited to parents, children, siblings, neighbours, and significant people in the community.
- Formal Groups or Organizations:
- Support and resources provided by a professional organization (Skemp Kelley, Pringle Specht & Maas, 2000). Formal groups or organizations can include nurses, home support workers, long-term care facilities, respite or support groups.
- Informal Support:
- Support and resources provided by persons associated with the person receiving care. Persons providing informal support can include, but are not limited to family, friends, members of a church or synagogue, neighbours
- Interdisciplinary Care:
- A process where health care professionals representing expertise from various health care disciplines participate in supporting clients and their families in the care process.
- Interfamilial Resources:
- Those resources that exist or occur among or involving several families.
- Intrafamilial Resources:
- Those resources that exist or occur within the family.
- Long-term Care Facility:
- Residential setting for the provision of long-term care services including medical, nursing, rehabilitative, attendant, activity and social support services along with nutrition and shelter (Health Services Restructuring Commission, 1997).
