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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT

After you have read chapter 29 and 30 choose a family in your community and conduct a family health assessment using the following questions below.

1. Family composition.

Type of family, age, gender and racial/ethnic composition of the family.

2.Roles of each family member.Who is the leader in the family?Who is the primary provider?Is there any other provider?

3.Do family members have any existing physical or psychological conditions that are affecting family function?

4.Home (physical condition) and external environment; living situation (this must include financial information).How the family support itself.

For example; working parents, children or any other member

5.How adequately have individual family members accomplished age-appropriate developmental tasks?

6.Do individual family member’s developmental states create stress in the family?

7.What developmental stage is the family in?How well has the family achieve the task of this and previous developmental stages?

8.Any family history of genetic predisposition to disease?

9.Immunization status of the family?

10.Any child or adolescent experiencing problems

11.Hospital admission of any family member and how it is handled by the other members?

12.What are the typical modes of family communication?It is affective?Why?

13.How are decisions make in the family?

14.Is there evidence of violence within the family?What forms of discipline are use?

15.How well the family deals with crisis?

16.What cultural and religious factors influence the family health and social status?

17.What are the family goals?

18.Identify any external or internal sources of support that are available?

19.Is there evidence of role conflict?Role overload?

20.Does the family have an emergency plan to deal with family crisis, disasters?

Identify 3 nursing diagnosis and develop a short plan of care using the nursing process.

Please present a summary of your assessment in an APA format on a 12 Arial font, word document attached to the forum in the discussion tab of the blackboard title “family assessment” Please use at least 3 scholarly evidence-based practice references besides the class textbook to sustain your assessment.A minimum of 1000 words are required, excluding the first and reference page (Websites can be used but will not count toward grading).2 replies to any of your peer’s assessment are required sustained by the proper references.You must identify two family problems and present a nursing care plan using the nursing process addressing the problems.

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Abstract

The rising number of physiological conditions amongst people in society has
turned out to be a challenge in the normal cycle of family life. The purpose of this
research is the study of physiological conditions and how they affect family function and
presentation of a nursing plan. Through the use of questionnaires and data analysis,
this study analyzes a family health assessment.

Family Health Assessment

In the old town of Turin lives The Miller family, the family consists of the father
James, the mother Anne, their first-born daughter Sophia who is nineteen, Harry and
Jack fraternal twins who are sixteen, Benjamin follows after who is thirteen and finally
the last born Wendy who is a girl of around six years. James Miller-Miles is of AfricanAmerican race while his wife is Caucasian; their children are of a mixed race. The head
of the household James works in a brewery while his wife is a housewife who partly
gives piano lessons. The main provider in the home is majorly the father as he caters
for almost every bill of the house unless sometimes subordinated by his wife. Sophia
just completed high school but has not joined college yet due to lack of funds, so she
works at a local café a caterer while t...


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