Family Health Assessment Paper

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Florida National University

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After you have read chapter 20 of the class textbook and review the PowerPoint presentation, 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.

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Running Head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT

Family Health Assessment
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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT

Family Health Assessment
The word may have a lot of meanings, but according to this context, a family defined as
two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and economic
support (Rubinstein, 2013). Also, a family can be defined as a close relationship that exists
among the people, especially the parents and children who are closely related. The family chosen
was a nuclear one which comprised of a father, mother, and their four children (two males and
two females). The father was the oldest in the family at the age of 45years; the mother was 40
years and the three children were 22, 18, 16 and 13 years respectively and this family was of a
black race with strong cultural and religious beliefs.
In each family, there is a leader who is also considered as the head of the family. The
family chosen in this context, the father, was the leader of the family and who also doubled as
the sole breadwinner of the family. Since the father’s income was not enough to sustain the
family well, the wife helped the family in providing other commodities that she could afford with
her little savings from the sale of garden produce. The children helped their parents in doing
house chores and taking care of cattle and also assisting their mother in digging their small
garden in which they planted veget...


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