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SITUATION

Situation

During your field of experience in community health nursing

department you were assigned to provide nursing care for the following

family:

Social conditions:

The family is composed of 3 members living at traditional rural house in

extended family. They have electricity and running water but poorly

ventilated and unclean housing condition with the presence of flies and

mosquitoes. In addition, they breed animals in the same household and

straw was stored on the roof. They also used to wash their cooking

utensils in the canal water.

Family members:

1. Father: 45 years old, he works at Spinning and Textile Company.

Lately he started feeling exhausted, tired easily, chest pain and

complains from coughing bloody sputum.

2. Mother: 35 years old, pregnant 8 months. She complains of blurring

of vision, severe headache, oedema of face and leg. She decided to

deliver at home.

3. Mona: 5 years old, she complains of runny nose, cough, red and

watery eyes and small white spots inside the cheeks.

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