Role of the Family Nurse

Nurse of family is a nurse whose role helping individuals and families to cope with chronic illness and disability by taking in part time work at home the patient and his family. Family nurse put emphasis on performance along with the family because the family is the subject.

In addition, the role of family caregivers can also provide advice on lifestyle, behavior and disease risk of doing assessments to detect diseases in order to provide intervention to tackle the disease at an early stage.

Knowing the socioeconomic factors that may influence family health issues in order to provide appropriate intervention. Nurses involved with the family, not limited to care, but also know that family health problems and had to position ourselves as a family member that can connect families with other health team.

Note: The role of family caregivers put emphasis on prevention.