Abstract
The purpose of this study is to develop“assessment guideline of family power for healthy life”aiming at expanding self-care power of family in community nursing practice. The subjects of this study covered those families in one hundred and fifty six instances that we had seized as subject for nursing care and study. The method of this study had constructed assessment guideline inductively out of each case, and modified it by applying to cases of families with health problems and others.
As a result, we had formed nine items of“family power for healthy life”and three items of“conditions influencing family power for healthy life”for“assessment guideline of family power for healthy life”.