The professional caregiver who is knowledgeable about instrumental family rituals and routines:
1. Knows that to make any health promoting changes in families, these rituals and routines must be altered.
2. Knows that illness management does not alter rituals and routines.
3. Knows that successful intervention depends upon changing theses rituals and routines.
4. Knows that successful intervention depends upon incorporating new health-care practices into the family's rituals and routines.
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1 Rituals and routines help families maintain integrity, so altering them may not be health-promoting.
2 The activities necessary for illness management can alter normal rituals and routines a great deal.
3 Changing rituals and routines may be seen as a threat to family integrity.
4 Nurses who recognize that they are temporary guests as they work within the family's routines and rituals are honoring family integrity.
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