Family Health Assessment

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COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT

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 handle by the other members?

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

13.How are decision 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, use at least 3 scholarly evidence-based practice references.A minimum of 1000 words are required, excluding the first and reference page (Websites can be used but will not count toward grading).

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Family Health Assessment
A family composition identifies all the members who reside in or is directly related to a
defined household, for example parents and / or relatives and children. This assessment is of a
Hispanic family comprising of:
i) a father, aged 36 years of age
ii) a mother aged 28 years of age
iii) a female child aged 12 years of age
iv) a female child aged 8years (who is physically and mentally challenged), and
v) a male child aged 4 years of age.
The family falls under the low social economic category. The parents work in minimum
wage paying jobs. The father is a menial worker who mainly works as a gardener and sometimes in
construction sites as an unskilled casual laborer. Their options for work are limited because they
both have high school level education and no specific formal training. The mother has a permanent
job as a caregiver in a geriatric facility. The family emigrated to the US about 10 years ago from
Mexico, meaning that English is not their native language and thus language is a major barrier in
their pursuit for better employment opportunities.
The major economic stress for the family is the unreliable nature of the father’s income. He
also struggles with substance abuse, meani...


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