...Family Health Evaluation Introduction Health Assessment is the plan of care that identifies or recognizes particular needs of an individual and how the needs will be addressed and conducted by the health practitioners or health care systems. Health Assessment is the gathering of information by physical assessment or extensive medical questionnaire. The health evaluation is done diagnose diseases early in characters that seem to be in good health condition. The purpose of the health assessment is to establish a plan of care for the patient and family. The health assessment takes into consideration eleven health patters. The interview was conducted using these eleven health care patterns with three open ended family focused questions per health pattern. A family health assessment is a critical approximation tool used in the healthcare system for the formulation of the family health plan. The research by the health practitioners as in the paper gives detailed information on the role of nurses in the family assessment and how the task can be done. Based on Gordon's principle of functional health pattern, the paper provides a summary of the findings of the health patterns of the involvement of the family with the inclusion of nursing diagnosis of each assessment offered to them. The use of this technique creates a standard systematic approach to collect information and data analysis considering the nurses determine to consider the aspects of health management, sexuality, sleep/rest...
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...A family health assessment is an important tool in formulating a health care plan for a family. This paper will discuss the nurse’s role in family assessment and how this task is performed. A nurse has an important role in health promotion. To perform these tasks the author has chosen a nuclear family. By the use of family focused open ended questions, 11 functional health patterns were covered. This principle is known as the Gordon’s functional health patterns. This assessment tool included 11 systematic principles for data collection of the family, and assists the nurses to develop a nursing diagnosis and appropriate interventions. Using Gordon’s functional health patterns, this paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing diagnosis of each assessment. This paper will also discuss different health promotion strategies along with web-based resources, also including a system based theory guide in family assessment. The assessment began with a health perception and health management pattern in which the family verbalized different health practices and habits for preventing illness and maintain health. The selected family was a young couple who has been married for 11 years, and has three children. The father is 39 years old, the mother is 36 years old, and their children’s ages are 10, 7, and 2. Based on the health perception and health management, the family verbalized that they do not smoke or drink alcohol...
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...Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT April 09, 2011 FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment The family of my choice is the Jones family. Sarah Jones is 40years African American, born into the Jones family with both parent alive and grandparent alive. The Jones family are devoted Catholic, they believes strongly in their Christian faith. Sarah Jones family has history of diabetes, hypertension, constipation, alcoholism and long history of smoking. Sarah Jones has history of diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a long 2 history of smoking cigarette ,chronic back pain, insomnia,depression and she weighs 300lbs and height 4.5ft tall , has never being married and has no children. Sarah Jones lives with her parents and she is an unemployed student, Sarah’s parents are retired. Health perception and Health Management In regards to the data collect on Ms Jones , it is noted that she has a long family history of smoking . Sarah Jones also has history of smoking cigarette, Sarah Jones has history of congestive obstructive pulmonary disease, which will result in failure to nourish tissues(Gordon, 1987). Nutrition and Metabolic Ms Jones data collected indicated a history of being obese and diabetes and she is unemployed and lives with her parents who are retired , Sarah Jones has problem of insufficient fund which makes it difficult for her to purchase food that are recommended for diabetic client and also she is unable to make good selection of food...
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...Family Health Assessment Student Student Students In Christ University Family Centered Health Promotion 429V Janet Wall March 24, 2013 Family Health Assessment An assessment was performed using Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns to gather data about a family. “Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns (2007) help organize basic family assessment information (Friedman et al., 2003)” for the purpose of evaluating and identifying dysfunctional patterns and recognize strengths within the family and to aid the nurse in planning interventions for maintaining health and well-being of each individual within the family (Edelman & Mandle, 2010, p. 177). An interview was conducted with a family consisting of 3 generations living together in one household. The family consists of a 50-year-old grandmother, Janet, her daughter, Holly (age 23), and the 4-year-old grandson, Brandon. The daughter and grandchild recently moved from Ohio to California following a divorce because they needed financial and emotional support. Both adults work and take care of Brandon, with his mother being the primary caretaker. He also goes to pre-school part time (personal communication, 2013). This seems to work and helps give Brandon a sense of security and safety. The review of health functions is as follows: 11 Functional Health Patterns Values, Health Perception Maintaining and carrying on the family cultural health practices is very important to this family, as they are primarily...
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...A family health assessment is the single most important method in determining the health care plan to adopt for each family. This paper will elaborate the nurse’s task in family assessment and how it's accomplished successfully with minimal stress. A nurse plays the central role in health promotion. The author has selected a nuclear family to successfully determine these important tasks. Using the open minded family focused questions, the assessment covered 11 functional health patterns. This principle is known as the Gordon's functional health assessment pattern and includes 11 systematic principles for the gathering of data about the family and helps the nurse develop nursing diagnosis and appropriate preventive interventions in family health promotion. By applying the Gordon’s functional health patterns, the author will summarize the results of each health pattern developed and the appropriate diagnosis for each of the family based nursing assessment. Alongside web-based resources, this paper will also discuss diverse health promotion strategies that will include a system based theory guide in family assessment. Values, Health Perception The chosen nuclear family is a middle aged couple, married for 22 years and with 2 children, girl and boy. The father is 45 years old Professor of Economics at a community college, the mother is 42 years old Pediatric Nurse Practitioner. The children's ages are 21 and 19 years and are in college. They live in a single family home....
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...Family Health Assessment A family health assessment is an important tool in formulating a health care plan for a family. This paper will discuss the nurse’s role in family assessment and how this task is performed. A nurse has an important role in health promotion. To perform these tasks the author has chosen a nuclear family. By the use of family focused open ended questions, 11 functional health patterns were covered. This principle is known as the Gordon’s functional health patterns. This assessment tool included 11 systematic principles for data collection of the family, and assists the nurses to develop a nursing diagnosis and appropriate interventions. Using Gordon’s functional health patterns, this paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing diagnosis of each assessment. This paper will also discuss different health promotion strategies along with web-based resources, also including a system based theory guide in family assessment. The assessment began with a health perception and health management pattern in which the family verbalized different health practices and habits for preventing illness and maintain health. The selected family was a young couple who has been married for 11 years, and has three children. The father is 39 years old, the mother is 36 years old, and their children’s ages are 10, 7, and 2. Based on the health perception and health management, the family verbalized that they do not...
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...Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V March 14, 2014 Introduction Family has an important role in health promotion paradigm. It consists of two or more person’s lives together or apart. A family is linked by blood, marriage, adoption or commitment to care for one another and achieve their expected part. Nurses finish a holistic nursing assessment of individual, family and community requirements. By using evidence-based context, such as Gordon’s functional health pattern assessment, will help nurses provide a broad nursing assessment of the patient. Nurses can ask eleven family focused questions which offer an outline of the individual’s health eminence and health practices that lead the individual to reach their current level of health or wellness (Edelma & Mandle, (2010). This essay is about a family conference and is supported by an addendum. The enquiries were quizzed throughout the course using Gordon’s functional health pattern and the diagnosis of the individual’s wellness had focused on the family assessment. Family Interview Health Perception/Health Management This author talked to a family that consists of a father, a mother, a fifteen year old daughter and a ten year old son. The husband and wife are well aware about their health concerns, management and advancement actions. They are also aware about their health management; they reflected on it and were engaged most of the time with some hindrances...
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...FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT This assessment was conducted after interviewing the Nelson family using Gordon’s functional health pattern. Marjorie Gordon developed a method to be used by nurses in the nursing process to provide a comprehensive nursing assessment. It includes eleven principles for the collection of data and helps the nurse identify two or more wellness nursing diagnoses. It is a systematic and standardized approach to data collection (“functional health” n.d.). The Nelson family includes a husband and wife named Gerad age 31, Kelsey age 29, and their two daughters Elliot age 4, and Lucy age 2. I first met Kelsey at work where she is also a critical care nurse with a young family just starting out. The following paragraphs contain my assessment findings. The Nelson’s are Lutheran and attend church 1-2 times per month. They are all up to date on their physicals and vaccines and for the most part a very healthy. There is no one being treated for a chronic condition. Both parents work full time and have access to health insurance. In regards to nutrition they describe eating whatever they want although they do believe in moderation. They have just recently starting to meal prep in order to cut down on how much they dine out. No one is on a restricted diet. They allow healthy snacks for the girls mostly fruits, cheese, and peanut butter sandwiches, and are all within range for acceptable body weight and height. Kelsey takes a...
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...What are Functional Health Patterns? A functional health pattern is an assessment tool used to help identify family needs in regards to their health. The assessment evaluates weakness and dysfunction within the family that could increase potential risk factors in association with overall health and wellness (Edelman, 2010). By identifying the problem areas allows for intervention and promotional strategies to alleviate the dysfunction. Health Pattern for my family There are eleven areas of the family health assessment: Values, health perception, nutrition, rest, elimination, activity, cognition, self-perception, role relationships, sexuality and coping. My family values include Christianity and spirituality. My family states if you give to the lord he will give back. We have some unhealthy habits in terms of adequate nutrition. We base our meals on convenience instead of health. We eat fast food or restaurant food for approximately 3 meals per week. When meals are prepared at home we eat at the family dinner table. Easy snacks and meals have become a commodity and convenience has overpowered healthy meals. Obesity, Gestational Diabetes and Hypertension run on all side of our family and should be a factor in relationship to our nutritional intake. We have a routine at home with nap and sleep schedules. However, I have a small child who frequently wakes in the night and disturbs the household sleep pattern. My husband also suffers from frequent insomnia...
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...Family Health Assessment Shaila Rahman Grand Canyon University Family-Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V Melanie Gray MSN October 19, 2014 Family Health Assessment Gordon's Functional Health Patterns provide a useful structural guideline that help nurse or any health care provider to assess any family’s health status and develop a nursing diagnosis according to their need to improve their quality of life. Through each of these eleven patterns of health assessment, nurse can create a systemic approach and gather information which help them to understand a family values from each prospect of human health status. The health assessment begin with asking two or three open ended questions to a selected family. This family is a young couple who have been married for 11 years. The father is 39 years old and the mother is 36 years old, who stays home with two children. They are 7 and 2 years old. Values/Health Perception Family history begins with the health perception-health management pattern (Edelman, 2013). Based on health perception and value, the family verbalized that they are thankful and blessed with two beautiful healthy children. Mother has occasional migraine headache but no disabilities issues in the family. No one smokes or taking drugs. They do socially drink alcohol but no more than 3-5 drinks a month. They always go for annual health checkups. Kids are up-to-date with immunization. They are Christian. They go to church every Sunday. They value being in healthy...
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...Family Health Assessment Karen Youngblood Grand Canyon University February 02, 2012 Family Health Assessment Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method developed by Marjorie Gordon in 1987 proposed functional health patterns as a guide establishing a comprehensive nursing data base(Kriegler & Harton, 1992). Gordon’s11 functional health patterns are; health perception/ health management, nutrition, pattern of elimination, activity/ excerise, cognitive, sleep/ rest, self perception/ self concept, roles/ relationships, sexuality, coping/ stress and values/ beliefs. By using these categories it’s possible to create a systematic and standardized approach to data collection and enables the nurse to determine the following aspects of health and human function (Kriegler & Harton, 1992). I have completed a family assessment on the Semanovich family using the 11function health patterns created by Gordon. I assessed the family by asking question from each category of the functional health patterns and will briefly discussion my findings in this paper. Health perception and values are focus on the individual’s perception of their health and their beliefs and values (Edelman, 2010). The health perception of the Semanovich family seen to be center around maintaining their current health by annual checkups, immunization for the kids and eating healthy. Eating healthy is a main focus in this family because Mrs. Semanovich is a diabetic. Mrs. Semanovich developed gestation...
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...Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Laisa Johny Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion NRS 429V February 17, 2012 Family Health Assessment Family health assessment is an important tool and crucial to understand family problems, developing plan of care and provision of care according to their needs. Nurses have an important role in health promotion. “Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns are the foundation for the nursing diagnosis and health promotion in family and community” (Edelman & Mandle, 2009, p.149). The assessment pattern has 11systemic principles for the collection of data from the family, helps for nursing diagnosis and interventions. Open ended questions are prepared based on Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns to interview family. I selected a nuclear family consists of parents and three children. Parents aged 40s married for 16years and kid’s ages are fourteen, twelve and four. First assessment of the family was the health perception and management. Family explained about their different practices and habits to maintain health. Family does not have any bad habits like smoking, alcohol or drug abuse, all members had annual screening and up-to-date with immunizations. For the nutritional metabolic assessment questions, family verbalized they are conscious about eating healthy meal with adequate intake of nutrients, calorie and fluid. They cook their food at home; eat plenty of vegetables...
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...Family Health Assessment A family health assessment is an important tool in formulating a health care plan for a family. This paper will discuss the nurse’s role in family assessment and how this task is performed. A nurse has an important role in health promotion. To perform these tasks the author has chosen a nuclear family. By the use of family focused open ended questions, 11 functional health patterns were covered. This principle is known as the Gordon’s functional health patterns. This assessment tool included 11 systematic principles for data collection of the family, and assists the nurses to develop a nursing diagnosis and appropriate interventions. Using Gordon’s functional health patterns, this paper will summarize the findings of each health pattern as well as the family based nursing diagnosis of each assessment. This paper will also discuss different health promotion strategies along with web-based resources, also including a system based theory guide in family assessment. The assessment began with a health perception and health management pattern in which the family verbalized different health practices and habits for preventing illness and maintain health. The selected family was a young couple who has been married for 11 years, and has three children. The father is 39 years old, the mother is 36 years old, and their children’s ages are 10, 7, and 2. Based on the health perception and health management, the family verbalized that they do not smoke or drink...
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...Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS 429 V July 1, 2012 A family can be defined as a group of people who lives together and are related by birth, marriage or adoption. The family has various functions which include teaching her members about her values, morals and beliefs especially as it relates to their health practices. Health can be defined as a complete state of wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease. Family health is the ability and resource available to a family to accomplish its developmental task. Loveland Cherry (2000). The student assessment a family of five: man, wife and their 3 children. The man is 48 years old, his wife 45 years old, the children ages are 17, 16 and 14. The oldest is their daughter who is 17 years old. During this assessment the student had an open mind and encouraged active participation among family members by initiating open communications. This made the assessment a complete success. The student used the Gordon’s functional health pattern and the system theory to conduct the family’s assessment. The functional health pattern established the outline the student used in finding a structured family nursing history, made up of eleven branches of function to promote health. The student’s knowledge of the system’s theory helped her understand and relate with family’s value, beliefs...
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...Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMEN Family Health Assessment Open-Minded, Family Focused Questions: I interviewed my dad on all11 Functional Health Patters. Values, health perception: 1. Do you have any past medical history like surgery or chronic illness? 2. Do you use tobacco, alcohol or drugs? 3. Are you taking any prescription/nonprescription medications? 4. What religion are you? 5. Is there any religious restrictions or practices? Nutrition: 1. Are you in any kind of diet? 2. Do you take any vitamins/supplements? 3. Do you have any difficulty swallowing? Sleep/Rest: 1. How many hours do you sleep? 2. Do you take any medication to sleep? 3. Do you have any sleep apnea? Elimination: 1. How often do you have bowel movement? 2. Do you have any constipation or diarrhea? 3. Do you have any bladder incontinence? Activity/Exercise: 1. What are your daily activities? 2. Do you exercise regularly? 3. Are you physically strong or weak? Cognitive: 1. Do you have any problem with memory or concentration? 2. Do you have difficulty making decisions? Sensory-Perception: 1. Do you have any vision problem? 2. Do you have any hearing problem? Self-Perception: 1. Do you feel anxious or depressed? 2. Do you feel loss of hope? 3. Are you taking any antidepressant? Role Relationship: 1. Are you married or single? 2. How many kids do you have? 3. Are you employed? Sexuality: 1. Are you sexually active? 2. Do you have any sexual transmitted disease...
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