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COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
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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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESMENT
Family Health Assessment
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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESMENT
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The family health assessment is a dimension of nursing that gives nursing a
whole new look allowing nurses to diagnose families, interpret the observations thereby
formulating nursing care plans for these families. A health assessment is nurses'
modern tool of health promotion achieved by asking family members sets of questions
that allows a nurse to generate a diagnosis. The evaluation process involves a
framework of Gordon's 11 functional health patterns including health management,
nutritional-metabolic pattern, exercise patterns, cognitive patterns, rest patterns, self perception, sexuality, stress tolerance, and beliefs. Information collected using
questions following this particular frame allows a nurse to interpret and advice a family
on the way forward with regards to health. This paper provides a summary on a critical
analysis of a family's presence thereby providing necessary a care plan and depicting a
nurse's role in the process.
The family is a Native American family that traces its origin to the Sioux tribe. It is
composed of seven members two being the parents while the other five being children
three boys and two daughters. The family attributes the gender balance in the family to
proper family ties and understanding. The father is the leader of the family earning
natural respect around the house. Likewise, He is the primary breadwinner of the family
even though the wife is also employed as nurse coincidentally and provides additional
financial support. Expectedly the father is the oldest with the age of sixty years while the
mother is fifty-five years old. The firstborn daughter is thirty years of age with the last
born da...
