Family support needs during an illness experience often require a nurse to:
1. Provide instructions that help the family understand the demands of an illness.
2. Develop a friendship with the family to provide continuity of care.
3. Resolve conflict by accentuating the individual family differences.
4. Make moral judgments of the family's actions.
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1 Providing instructions that help the family understand the demands of an illness is important to family-focused nursing care.
2 The nurse develops a trusting therapeutic relationship, rather than a friend role.
3 Identifying and understanding the individual family differences will move toward resolution of conflict, rather than emphasizing the differences.
4 A family-focused nurse avoids making moral judgments of the family's actions, and rather strives to understand the actions.
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