...Family Health Assessment Family health assessments are an interactive way to gather information regarding family history and dynamics, level of knowledge and interaction. “Families provide the structure for many health-promotion practices; therefore, family assessment informs health-promotion and disease-prevention appraisal”. (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014, p. 150) This paper will review a completed family health assessment that addresses eleven separate topics. After reviewing and analyzing the information, appropriate wellness diagnoses will be identified. Including the whole family is important since “Family health practices, whether effective or ineffective, encompass activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease” (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014, p. 150). The family that completed this assessment is comprised of four members, two parents and two children. The adult female is the biological mother of the two boys. She is 47 and works in a managerial role. The adult male is also the biological father of the two boys and this is his second marriage, the first resulting in no children. He is 43 and works as a maintenance worker for the state. The children are two boys, ages 15 and 13. The adults have been married for 18 years. The first topic discussed was values and health perception. This family has what they describe as good health insurance and have regular checkups. The adult male did have recent surgery to correct...
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...Family Health and Nursing Practice University of Phoenix NUR 542: Dynamics of Family Systems May 25, 2010 Traditional hospital based nursing care is most often care provided to individual patients. Individual patients, however, are members of a family. Family nursing practice has evolved over the past 20 years as a way to approach and work with families. Effective nursing care ensures that the entire family’s situation, not only the illness of the loved one, is considered (Maijala & Astedt-Kurki, 2009). A goal for family nursing practice in the hospital setting will be to focus on three areas simultaneously; care of the ill patient, the interpersonal aspects of the family and the family as a whole (Eggenberger & Nelms, 2007). This paper will discuss the importance of the family as a system to promote health, define family in a hospital based setting, and identify the family nursing theory applicable to care for the hospitalized patient and family. The Family System and Promotion of Health for its Members The importance of family in the health of our society is directly related to our smallest community of society-the family. “Family transmits society’s demands and values and furthers its preservation” (Burchard, 2005). Family has a goal of meeting the needs of its members and is the main source of information, learning behaviors, thoughts and feelings. Healthy growth and development has been viewed as the most vital role of the family, providing crucial development...
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...head: FAMILY HEALTH NURSING Family Health Nursing University of Phoenix NUR 464: Concepts of Family Nursing Theory Janet Gradle June 2004 Family Health Nursing Family health has been an important aspect for nurses. Initially, families have contact with the nurse regarding their health care needs. The nurse’s role is work in collaboration with families to assist, provide education, and promote healthy relationships for each individual and their family members. However, over the past century the family structure and household have changed drastically due to a great difference in social, economic, and cultural diversity. Families today are multifaceted and unique. However, “families serve as the basic social unit of society” (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2004, p.563). Family health is ever-changing in today’s culture. It is essential that healthcare providers strive to encourage goals and values, promote lifelong education, as well as teach and assist in guiding the family through the stressors of society. The Family Is an Important Focus for Nurses Nurses play a key role in assisting and promoting the health care needs of individuals and families as a whole. To develop a health care plan for the family, the nurse must determine which clients are apart of the family and include them in the planning process Once all members of the family are participating the nurse can identify all the health care concerns of the family (Stanhope...
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...Family Health Assessment Valerie McNeil Grand Canyon University: NRS-429 November 24, 2013 Family Health Assessment As nurses it is essential to use appropriate tools to assess individuals, families, and communities. Throughout this paper the writer used The Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns as a guide to assess a family. This family included a mother, a father, one son, four daughters, and two grandsons. The writer developed two to three open minded, family focused questions for each of the 11 functional health patterns. In this paper the writer summarizes the findings of each functional health patterns of the family, and identifies three wellness nursing diagnoses based on the family assessment. The family being interviewed has a well pattern of health perception and health management. None of the family members have been hospitalized for long periods of time. The family members do not use drugs, or tobacco. Two of the older kids do drink alcohol occasionally, but the rest of the family does not. The family does not have the best nutritional-metabolic patterns. The family does not use vitamins or supplements, as well as the daily intake of food does not have a well balance of fruits, vegetables, grains, dairy, and protein. Two of the family members have eczema, and multiple family members have dental problems such as cavities. Most family members do not have problems with bowel patterns or bladder control. The father of the family has colon cancer and his bowel pattern...
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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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...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 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 PLAN Introduction: Most of the time when a person imagine of the definition of a family, the figure of a mother, father and children is what comes into the mind. The form or structure does not show how healthy it is or how they function. The primary function of the family is to reproduce society, both biologically, through procreation, and socially, through socialization. From the perspective of children, the family is a family of orientation: the family functions to locate children socially, and plays a major role in their socialization. Objectives: To be able to make a family health plan in the community. To diagnosed family health problems. Family Profile NAMEOFMEMBERS | RELATION TOHEAD | SEX | AGE | CIVIL STATUS | HIGHEST EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT | OCCUPATION | HEALTH STATUS | Joey Sibal | Father | M | 39 | M | College undergrad | None | Well | Michelle Sibal | Mother | F | 37 | M | College grad | Teacher | Well | Mary Jane | Daughter | F | 11 | S | Elementary | student | Well | Family Structure * ( )Nuclear Family ( ) Extended Family ( ) Single-Parent Nuclear Family or often called the traditional family. This was the most admired from the four types of structure. It can be can be a fostering environment in which to host children as long as there is love, time spent with children, emotional support, low stress, and a constant economic upbringing. Family Life Cycle ( ) Unattached Young Adult ( ) The Newly...
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...Family Health Assessment Leslie Quiett Grand Canyon University: NS-429V June 22, 2014 Family Health Assessment Whether or not a family is the family of origin or a blended family after divorce or widowhood, it is the recognized structure by which we identify ourselves. We come together over traditions, ethnic ties, diet and exercise; sleep habits, medical history and genetic factors, educational patterns and emotional ties. How we relate to each other, whether negative of positive, defines who we are as a family. We convey by physical and emotional example how the family is to thrive or sometimes fail. Using open-ended family-focused questions to interview a family provides insight into the function of the family system (Rentfro, 2014 p.150) Summary of Functional Health Patterns Findings Nora and Vince are neighbors who, after nine-and-a-half years, are entering into a trial separation. They have been in counseling for two years. Nora is 48 years old Caucasian female. Raised in Boston upper middle-class, she is of Irish descent. She sees herself as a transplanted East-coaster. She was adopted as a child as was her only brother. Her birth mother was obese and suffered from diabetes, drug addiction and hypertension. Nora is five feet two inches and weighs one hundred and sixty pounds. She enjoys decorating her home and cooking. She has no children of her own but is an aunt and fulfills the role of grandmother to her husbands’ daughter’s children. Vince is a 49 year-old-male...
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...Running head: FAMILY HEALTH EVALUATION Family Health Evaluation Grand Canyon University NRS 429V May 27, 2012 Family Health Evaluation Each family has their own views and beliefs on how they understand health and illness. Different situations pose as difficult challenges to the members of the family. Assessment by using different tools helps the healthcare professional to better understand the family and implement appropriate intervention. This paper will discuss the summarized version of family assessment by using Gordon’s functional health patterns (Edelman & Mandel, 2010), recognize health related limitations, as well as strengths, and provide wellness and family nursing diagnoses. The writer interviewed a family consisting of husband (50 years) who works as an engineer in a company, the mother (45 years) who works as a lab technician, they have two children, both are twins and 16 year old girls. The family’s health perception was first examined. The family counts themselves somewhat healthy. The family has extensive medical history, where husband’s and wife’s parents both had hypertension and diabetes. The husband is diabetic and wife has hypercholesterolemia. Both are taking medications for the condition and have been fairly compliant. Family does go for regular check-ups, with children taken for annual check-ups. Recently the husband had to be admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. Had recovered quickly and discharged home with oral antibiotics. The...
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...Family Health Assessment Nurses could view family as a client, as one unit with multiple individuals in different stages of transition including adults, adolescents, and small children. “A family is a set of interacting individuals related by marriage, blood, and adoption or by cohabitation interdependently perform relevant functions to fulfill expected role” (Edelman & Mandle2010). System theory helps nurses to view clients as participating members of a family. Developmental theory helps nurses to look at different phases of the family system and predict family transitions based on the norms. Gordon’s functional health patterns help nurses to assess and understand health patterns of their family as a whole functional unit that relates to their health needs, and modify nursing practice accordingly (Edelman & Mandle2010). Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns are values/ health perception, nutrition, sleep/rest, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, sensory- perception, self-perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping. This author has interviewed a family where the father is a 40 year old African American male married to a 39 year old Hispanic woman. They have been married for 20years and have one 15 year old girl and a 10 year old boy. They are a happily married couple and have a good support system of family and friends. The father is a truck driver and the mother is a medical assistant. Their average income is 30-40 grand per year and they...
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...Families created out of second marriages often begin with high expectations. Parents hope to avoid or to fix the mistakes made in a previous marriage and to find the love or security that has been missing. Some hopes maybe little more than fantasies, but any that goes unfulfilled cause stress. In a structural-functional approach, the family is viewed as an organization arranged in a structure with a hierarchy that enables it to perform necessary functions. The family is organized into smaller parts, or subsystems. Some concepts relevant to this framework are values, boundaries, roles, hierarchies, and interactional style. (Smith ,Maurer 2009, p.336). Regarding values the couple must put their marriage first. Spend time with your new spouse, and make his or her status in the family clear to your children. For instance, fathers could say something like this to their children even before they remarry: “I love Anna, and she will be my wife. I know you will be polite to her.” For roles each child must be given household chores, a seat at the table, and a space of their own in the home. This includes those who may stay with the new couple only part-time. Each member of the family must know their boundaries. Boundaries represent rules that define participants in a subsystem and regulate their behavior. Families with clear and age-appropriate boundaries are believed to function better than families with rigid or ill-defined boundaries. Parents can avoid creating many rules or changing...
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...Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion March 25, 2012 Family Health Assessment My coworker, Maria, is from the Philippine islands. She came to the U.S. when she was in her early twenties to pursue a career in nursing. She met her husband Joseph at her first job and they married three months later. Joseph is also Filipino and a nurse who came to the U.S. when he was nineteen years old. They did not have a long engagement because their families do not believe in premarital sex or birth control. Maria became pregnant with their first child after they were only married for three months. They now have three daughters who are ages three, five and nine years old. They were all born in the U.S. Maria, her spouse and all of her children speak both English and Tagalog, their native language. She reports her family is very interdependent and most of the time either her parents or her husband’s parents share their home. Grandparents frequently help care for their grandchildren and are treated with great respect. Currently, Joseph’s parents and his grandmother reside with them. Maria works part-time so she can be at home with the children as much as possible. Joseph works the night shift and works five to six nights per week to allow his wife to only work part-time. A typical day in their life starts with early morning prayers followed by breakfast which is attended...
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...involve a complex transition that require the disintegration of one family structure and organization of another (Afifi & Keith,2004; Clark, 2007) . Typically the individuals should evaluate a partner’s belief of religion and values prior to have a long term commitment. For example if a Catholic individual acquires a relationship with a Muslim it would be difficult to understand one another’s religious values. Muslim’s believe praying facing toward the Mecca had certain hours of the day, while Catholics may face anywhere during prayer. Another example when a member of the family dies Muslim wants to bury the same day before dawn. Whereas a Catholic normally prefers a viewing of the body and can wait for days. People bring religious values and beliefs about health promotion and disease prevention that were practice in previous marriage. Each person should bring in respect, love and trust to a new family, especially when children are involved. Some common myths concerning step families are that children of divorced parents are considered damaged. Both parents need to develop principles they both believe in and set a realistic house ground rules. Examples such as listen and respect one another, address conflicts positively, establish an open and nonjudgmental atmosphere, join together in fun games/activities/travel, eat dinner with one another which is the usually the best time for communications. Everyone in families should be open to one another set some guidelines of expectations...
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