The nurse is caring for a family within an impoverished community. What is it important for the nurse to understand about families?
a. They are made up of a set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage or adoption.
b. They are comprised of a group of indi-viduals living together who may not be related.
c. They all have one unique form indepen-dent of cultural or ethnic orientations.
d. They all have the same strengths, weak-nesses, resources and challenges.
A
A family is a set of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, or adoption who usually live together and fulfill functions of socialization, division of labor, economic provisions, and cooperatively meet affective and emotional needs of the individuals within the family unit. In addition, individuals living together, regardless of their relationship or whether they fulfill com-mon social functions, constitute a household. When you provide individualized family care, un-derstand that families take many forms and have diverse cultural and ethnic orientations. In addi-tion, no two families are alike. Each has its own strengths, weaknesses, resources, and challenges.
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