ROLE OF NURSES IN FAMILY WELFARE.pptx

ROLE OF NURSES IN FAMILY WELFARE
PROGRAMMES

The Role of Nurses in Family Welfare Programs
Introduction:
The key roles and responsibilities of nurses in family welfare programs are
discusses the various ways in which nurses can contribute to the success of
these programs, that including providing health education, counseling, and
support to families. It also highlights the importance of nurses in promoting
preventive care and early intervention, as well as in providing clinical care and
case management services.

A Nurses plays as many roles in family welfare
programmes:
1.Counselor’s Role
2.Administrative role
3.Educational role
4.Role in Research worker
5.Role of clinical nurse in hospital/community
6.Supervisory role

Counselor`s Role:
 Respect the couple and help them to now all the methods of family planning.
 Listen and encourage them to explain their needs, concern, and problems.
 Let the couple talk and lead the discussion.
 Give correct information in simple language.
 Inform the client about the effects and side effects of each family planning method
or the chosen family planning method.
 Respect and appreciate the client on their informed decision.
 Check the client’s feedback and respond immediately.

Cont.….
 Give proper referral health facility, if required.
 Before the client’s leave ensure that they are satisfied.
 When a new client comes for the first time asking for contraceptive information,
inform demonstrate and motivate them use the method.
 Give adequate time for the client to decide.
 Ensure constant availability of counseling and maintain counseling record
 Give appointment for re-counseling and or follow up care and maintain
documentation.

Administrative Role:
 Maintains an up-to-date and relevant knowledge about family planning
services in the country.
 Make sure that all her nursing staff are aware of family planning
measures during their training or in-service education programme.
 Ensures that adequate educational material on family planning is
available in the ward library and all contraceptives’ methods for
demonstration to patients are made available in the wards.
 Formulate a policy on imparting knowledge on family welfare services
to all patients before they are discharged from the hospitals.

 Establishes a good referral system between each ward of the hospital
and the family planning department so that each eligible client gets
required contraceptives.
 Incentivizes nurses to make their best contributions to family planning
services.
 Supervises nurses, ANMs, Anganwadi workers and multipurpose
health workers in relation to activities on family planning.
 Participation or conducts research on family planning.
 Plans and conducts in-service education programs for nursing
personnel.

Educational Role:
The fundamental job of a medical care taker is to
instruct individuals about Family welfare
programmes. The wellbeing instruction can be held in
the wellbeing habitats, emergency clinics, centers,
schools, homes.

Cont.…..
 Integrates family planning component in nursing curriculum while teaching.
 Teaches family planning as a subject.
 Selects and organizes learning experience both in theory and practice for student nurses.
 Coaches ANM, health visitors, multipurpose health workers and Anganwadi workers
regarding family planning.
 Help nurse administer to organize in-service education programs for nurses, also clarifies
doubts of patients regarding family planning, during her supervisory rounds.
 Conducts or participates in nursing research on family planning.

Role in Research worker:
 Conducts surveys of eligible couples from different
communities with varying socio-economic data.
 Organizes surveys on knowledge of family planning among
patients in hospital setting.
 Imparts sex education on adolescents.
 Participate in or conducts studies on family planning and other
related topics.

Clinical nurse in hospital/community:
 Identifies eligible couples.
 Imparts information to the eligible couples regarding different methods
of contraception advantages, disadvantages and side effect.
 Motivates the couple to adopt family planning methods.
 Counsels the couple to identify their problems due to large family and
take steps to solve those problems.
 Assist the doctor in surgical methods such as vasectomy
and tubectomy.

Cont.….
 Maintain the stock book and ensures adequate supplies in
health care center.
 Manage referral services and follow-up-care.
 Maintain properly the documents and records of vital
statistics.

Supervisory Role:
Nursing faculty are liable for useful supervision
and in-administration instruction of their wellbeing
laborers and experts.

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