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Families and the Health Care System

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Family systems have emerged to change the course of how healthcare is conceived and implemented. The economic recession has brought about processes which unite families as partners, bringing about life changing decisions as to the planning and implementation of a family mental or physical health. When society defines our mental and physical health, it always first asks “so what or how is the family life." Family becomes the anchor that prevents alienation of all sorts. The health of our family is defined as “ways in which the household, as a whole, engages in daily activities to promote the well-being of its members and is emotionally invested in the maintenance of health over time" (Fiese, 2007). Our world asks that to maintain stability of health in this world, it is imperative that family members be cooperative and be involved in their health planning. Denham (2002) has described the household production of health. Family health is defined as the “dynamic ways members holistically care (d) for one another using communication, cooperation, and caregiving to sustain health routines in the contextually embedded household” (p. 31). To this, we can also associate that the activities of the family help to foster the prevention of diseases, coping with stressors of recovery and illness, supporting wellness and communicating with their healthcare professional. To upset or shift this family dynamic could overburden entire family communities and their caregivers. As nurses, we’ve been taught on that familial continuum. Our excellence in practice is to be the standard for care. As familial nurses, we cannot knowingly continue to practice clinically if it’s suggestive that not helping or harm will come to our patients. The bases for my organization Carecore National is that we work with over 50 million lives for some of America’s top health plans. Our Care Core team consists of some 2000 employees that include physicians from a

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