Describe five ways to look at the family in family nursing. Give a community health nursing practice ...

-    family as context. CHN e.g., Mr. Smith with high blood pressure is the client. His family is his context.
-    family is sum of its parts. CHN e.g., nursing care is provided to all members of the Jones family who are home from hospital after being treated for first- and second-degree burns in a house fire.
-    family subsystem is client. CHN e.g., focus is on the mother/baby dyad during a postpartum home visit.
-   family as client. CHN e.g., focus is on both Mrs. Green and her adult children simultaneously as they cope with her advancing Alzheimer's disease.
-    family as component of society. CHN e.g., family health is promoted through increases in social benefit payments (page 348)