...Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Grand Canyon University September 2, 2014 Assessment of Families with Heritage Assessment Tool Each country has a different tradition, culture, customs and anindividual’scultural legacy plays a very important part in upgrading the health of that person. According to various sources, United States will observe an immense increase in mixture of cultures in the 21stcentury. Nurses should have a proper knowledge about the patient’s health who belonged to various cultures, and their social needs, in order to enrich their life’s value and the protection of health.Each patient will have different beliefs of their well-being and nurses should be able to recognize, evaluate and work with conventional health habits used by patients of all cultures A teaching method that endorse cultural skills can bedeveloped by educating nursing students about patients heritage evaluation and tradition (Toddmckee, 2012). The heritage assessment tool aids to differentiate various customs and culture of different societies. The main aim of this paper is to apply the heritage assessment tool to evaluate the requirements of a person and his health preservation, assertion, and renewal. In this paper, evaluation of three families, their family background, their culture and tradition is been discussed. Usefulness of Applying Heritage Assessment Tool The purpose of this Heritage Assessment tool is to provide awareness to students which will help them to understand...
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...journal, I have been monitoring and recording my food intake for the period of three weeks. This included a comprehensive assessment of such egested foods as vegetables, grains, fruits, dairy products, and oils (Bro Taf Health Authority, Wales & Protocol Enhancement Project, 2000). With the existence of numerous relevant technological advancements in the modern era, Super Tracker assisted me in monitoring my progress during the three-week timeframe. This was also a suitable approach of evaluating my exercise habits since it made it possible to track the level of physical activities throughout the assessment period. Acquiring this information formed the basis of highlighting the essence of proper nutrition and physical fitness. These health-related aspects are some of the reliable ways of preventing such chronic illnesses s heart diseases, hypertension, diabetes, and other ailments associated with obesity. With the rising cases of obesity globally, it is important to acquire and spread information related to such practical approaches of healthy living (Bro Taf Health Authority, Wales & Protocol Enhancement Project, 2000). For this reason, this food journal will contain detailed information regarding my food intake based on various food groups as well as the level of physical activity during the stipulated period. A detailed plan aimed at promoting healthy eating and increased physical fitness will also be at the core of this paper as a way of putting emphasis on the need for...
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...The family is measured the natural and fundamental component of the community. The household members make up the family as a structure. The family includes members of different age group from newborns to elders. The family’s activities and reactions influence the patterns of the family as a whole (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle 2014, p. 2014). The ultimate aim of the treatment is to expedite the fitness of the family. Family health valuation defines the assessment of actual and potential problem of individual (Gordan 1994). The goal of health care is giving straight and indirect treatment to the person and the community in terms of valuation, analysis, nursing interventions, application and estimation. Historically conceptual models are used to assess the family in nursing practice. Health assessment included with subjective and objective data. Here Gordan’s 11 functional health assessment patterns are used to assess this family. The Gordon’s functional assessment patterns are a valuable tool for assessing and evaluating the family’s traditional health patterns, and permitting the health care provider to look at the inside of the overall health of the particular family. Family Background The family I selected belongs to an African ethnic group. This essay discusses the health pattern and functions of Nyennoh’s family. This is a nuclear family with mother of age 32 father of 34 and three children of age groups, eleven year old boy, nine year old girl and five year old...
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...Health Self Assessment In order to improve one’s health and quality of life, it is important to be aware of an individual’s health status. Our textbook authors, Meeks, Hait & Paige (2009) describe the importance of self-appraisals and health behavior inventories in teaching students about their practices that will impact their health. In order to become an effective teacher who is enthusiastic about health education, the author of this paper focuses on gaining a comprehensive understanding of her health. After assessing my health through an internet tool available on the Council for Responsible Nutrition wellness campaign webpage, I have reached several conclusions and understanding of my current general health status. The health assessment tool on the webpage is called “my wellness score card”. The assessment analyzes nutritional choices, use of supplements, habits, exercise, and healthy weight relative to gender, height and age. Prior to this assessment of my lifestyle, I was aware of some of my bad habits but I was under the impression that I did enough to balance it. Once I read the results, I was somewhat shocked! After careful thinking, I believe that finding out where I stand now, even though I suffer from few illnesses, can be beneficial, almost a wakeup call. Being aware of my habits and lifestyle choices is the first step in the right direction toward improving my health status. Below is the graph of my assessment results from the Council for Responsible Nutrition...
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... Functional health patterns are influenced by biological, developmental, cultural, social, and spiritual factors.A functional pattern represents a healthy set of behaviors.The judgement of whether a pattern is functional or dysfunctional is made by comparing assessment data. These 11 categories make possible a systematic and standardized approach to data collection, and enable the nurse to determine the different aspects of health and human function. This paper will discuss the nurse’s role in family assessment and how this task is performed by the use of family focused open ended questions. 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. SUMMARY OF THE FAMILY To assess the family using the Gordon’s 11 functional health pattern the author has chosen a joint Indian family.The head of the family is Abraham who is 70yrs.He lives with his wife Mary 62yrs,son Jacob 38yrs,his wife Alice 34yrs and two children’s Annie 14yrs,Ashley11yrs. Using Gordon’s 11 functional assessment open ended question the author was able to get a idea of different aspect of their health and was able to compare it. 1.Health Perception-Health Management Pattern:The family states they are healthy except for Abraham and his wife who are diabetic since 10yrs.Both of them go for periodic educational classes for diabetes and do periodic blood screenings...
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...chances in getting the particular type of disease yet all of them are not for sure if depending on age or family history or just because of our health state throughout life itself. Genetic and environmental exposures are probable causes to these types of disease causing the cancer. Smoking cigarettes, eating habits, chemicals exposed, and environmental factors are all part of the future risk factors. Cervical cancer is highly important information every woman should partake as the years go by because it is much more common and serious then many are aware of. Cervical cancer should start getting screened by each individual woman who has ever been sexually active. Self help classes are available for support on smoking which is one of the modifiable risk factors to cervical cancer. It is said that smoking can increase the causes of cervical, lung, bladder, kidney, pancreatic, lip, mouth, tongue, larynx, throat and esophagus cancer. That is unbelievable! The multiple types of cancers following just one thing you can change in your life which can increase your life forever. Smoking causes up to 30% of all cancer deaths in the United States as a proven fact. After completing the assessment comparing myself to an average woman my age I am highly above average at risk of cervical cancer. I do unfortunately agree because since the age of 19 I have had multiple...
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...Running head: BORETZKY FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Boretzky Family Health Assessment Michelle Phoebe Baltazar Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V September 8, 2012 Boretzky Family Health Assessment Gordon’s functional health pattern assessment is a tool that nurses can use to analyze a person’s whole being that incorporates every aspect of that person. Through this approach, nurses can ensure that holistic care is provided. The Boretzky family was therefore interviewed to analyze each functional health patterns in order for the nurse to identify two wellness nursing diagnosis that could help the family live an optimal lifestyle. Functional Health Pattern Findings The Boretzky family is a well-educated family which showed during the interview in regards to health maintenance/perception, nutritional pattern, and exercise pattern. During the interview both Staci and Barry, mentioned the correlation of healthy living with healthy diet that incorporates the recommended food pyramid and regular exercise into their daily routine. “To promote a healthy lifestyle I make sure to take a multivitamin every day, eat the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables and stay active by going to the gym every day. When possible, I also try and get a good amount of sleep every night” (S. Boretzky, personal communication, September 5, 2012). Moreover, both children also correlated the intake of foods high in fiber to maintain a regular elimination pattern. This shows...
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...European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (2002) 56, 644–649 ß 2002 Nature Publishing Group All rights reserved 0954–3007/02 $25.00 www.nature.com/ejcn ORIGINAL COMMUNICATION The Adolescent Food Habits Checklist: reliability and validity of a measure of healthy eating behaviour in adolescents F Johnson1, J Wardle1* and J Griffith1 1 ICRF Health Behaviour Unit, University College London, UK Objective: Amid concerns about the quality of young people’s diets, this paper describes the development of a measure of healthy eating behaviour for use with adolescents. Design: Items for the measure were selected from a larger pool on the basis of responses from a pilot study. The 23-item checklist was validated using measures of dietary fat and fibre intake, fruit and vegetable consumption, dietary restraint, nutrition knowledge and a measure of family income. Setting: Participants came from seven secondary schools in the north-west of England. Subjects: A total of 1822 adolescents aged between 13 and 16 y took part in the study, representing 84% of those invited to participate. Results: Correlations between measures indicate a good level of convergent validity, and the checklist is also shown to have high internal and test – retest reliability. Conclusions: The focus on choices available to adolescents means that the checklist will provide a useful addition to food frequency-type approaches to the measurement of adolescent eating behaviour. Sponsorship: This research was funded by...
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...Personal Health Assessment Paper John Martin Mubiru SCI/100 - PARADIGMS OF HEALTH September 18, 2010 Personal Health Assessment Paper Personal health assessment is a systematic functional data on health plans. It serves as a foundation of any successful wellness of health practices. Personal health assessment helps people to achieve the best health through proven health support technics, evidence-based actions, and caring coaches. (LM Health Works) Health describes wellness as an important aspect of a human being to live well. Wellness however is the positive approach to living good with a health body, health mind, and more important living without diseases. There are six dimensions of wellness in a healthy lifestyle. Namely, intellectual, emotional, social, physical, spiritual, and environmental. Three of these mentioned dimensions have been elaborated in details below. First, globally, the environmental dimension of wellness determines which kind of life a certain area can harbor. This in turn helps to develop different characteristics of the people and animals. The settlement of human life in an oasis found in a desert-like environment depends on the health of the planet. No human life can avail in the tropical rain forests, because of the abundance big trees, wild inhabitants and a concentration of billion insects. However, food security, water and the presence of penetrable areas enables human life to settle in many parts of the world. Furthermore, the...
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...Outline I: Family Assessment Summary findings of the family Assessment Watson’s Theory of human caring-Influences clinical thought and action in community and public health nursing II: Diagnosis according to the Family Assessment results Nutritional guidelines-Overweight, Blood pressure and diabetes Link each diagnosis to a Healthy People 2020 LHI. Conducting a comprehensive and holistic assessment of participant family with consideration of the windshield Survey and Current research & develop a plan for the family & determine diagnosis. 3-5Legal and ethical considerations with the potential solutions/actions III: Nursing plan Describe how you plan to advocate for the family within their community and involve the family members in becoming partners in their own health. Explain how the family’s health may be affected by family structure and roles. Identify family values that may be different from your own values and how this may affect the interventions. Educational tools and the benefits Compile a list of topics and resources for the family’s health education needs, and explain why these resources were chosen Additional attachments IV: V: Clinical Log for time spent conducting the Family Assessment Completed Family Assessment including survey questions and family answers Works Cited Appendixes VI: VII Currently in the health care industry, Nurses are dealing with biomedical and ethical dilemmas constantly arisen. It is clear that...
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... Dear Mr. Alberto M. Carvalho: I have been concerned with what is happening to our children these last few years. Childhood obesity is becoming more prominent and should be on your priority list. I am currently a Registered Nurse enrolled in the University of Phoenix to obtain my Bachelor’s degree in Nursing. I have become more aware of my community and through different assessment in the assignments; I have had the chance to identify some of the different characteristics within my community that could adversely affect the health of the population. Childhood obesity is one of the factors that caught the most of my attention. My job now is to respectfully ask for conscientiousness and to educate the Board Members of precipitating factors that are contributing to this countywide epidemic. With rising costs and a slowing economy, I commend your efforts to explore additional ways the Dade County School Board can implement a more cost-effective margin with the various food programs you have recently implemented. As you know, there are always pros and cons to everything. During my community assessment, the main factor that was noticed was how obesity is presently harming and affecting our community’s health. Sigma Theta Tau International (STTI) is the Honor Society of Nursing that works with the World Health Organization (WHO) that help to provide global initiatives to make a healthier more balanced world (STTI, 2011). In 2004, at the World Health Organization Assembly, a global...
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...The decision on what to put in one’s body is an essential factor that determines a person’s overall health. There is a wide spectrum of vitamins and minerals that are contained in all foods. The consumption of too much or too little of certain vitamins and minerals can both be harmful or beneficial to one’s body. The utilization of food varies from person to person. There is no size that fits all. Several factors such as height, weight, age, gender, etc., can affect someone’s required daily intake of calories, vitamins, and minerals. After looking at my dietary assessment sheet and grouping the intakes, I learned several facts about my diet. In spirit of the new year, I decided to alter my eating habits. I used to eat fast food everyday and...
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...Personal Health Assessment and Health Promotion Plan Abstract The purpose of this assignment is to gain a greater understanding of the health promotion concepts through self reflection. I plan to do this by identifying three self-assessment tools; a food journal, exercise log and sleep log, along with providing rationale for the chosen instruments. I will also address the Transtheoretical Model (TM), which stages I have gone through and which stage I am currently in. These tools and stages along with a wellness diagnosis will help me to develop a personal health plan. The outcomes of the interventions will be discussed and will include personal achievements and success. Personal Health Assessment and Health Promotion Plan The definition of health is very subjective; it can vary from person to person. What one person might consider healthy another might consider being average. I define good health as a complete circle of one’s physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-bring. Personal health assessment is a key building block in understanding your own health. Once there is an understanding one can make plans for improvement. According to Pender “a thorough assessment of health and health behaviors is the foundation for tailoring a health promotion-prevention plan” (Pender, Murdaugh, & Parsons, 2011, p. 89). Once my definition of health was clearly defined, I took a closer look at my personal health beliefs by completing the Health Beliefs Survey (Appendix A)...
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...facilities for exercises. The educational and informational strategies attempt to build the knowledge to inform the necessity of optimal health practice. Information and learning experiences voluntary adaptations towards conductive behavior of health. This can be done by providing information in internet, posters, pamphlets, health and nutrition software’s and providing information regarding healthy diet and exercise. Behavioral and social strategies will influence the behaviors indirectly by targeting individual’s awareness, self – efficacy, perceived support and interntions.this can include social environment to provide support for the people to maintain weight changes. Such interventions can involve group behavioral counseling. The Vision of healthy people 2020: “A society in which all people live long , Healthy lives “, So the barriers to health service includes lack of availability, Increased cost, lack of insurance. And it includes self-assessed health status and providing health services. The initiative to improve the health of all individuals as a whole. “Healthy People 2020 track healthy life expectancy using 3 measures: Expected years of life in good or better health, Expected years of life free of limitation of activity, Expected years of life free of selected chronic diseases .one...
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...Running Head: FAMLIY HEALTH ASSESSMENT 1 Family Health Assessment NRS- 429V Family Health Assessment 2 As a nurse, it is vital to remember that the family of the given patient plays a large role in their promotion of health. Family health practices, whether effective or ineffective, encompass activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease (Edellman, 2004). The Gordon’s eleven Functional Health Patterns Assessment is a useful tool in assessing and evaluating the family’s developed health patterns, allowing the health care provider a better look at the overall health of a family as a whole. This allows for interventions to be uniquely crafted based on the findings of the assessment, ending with a result of better health outcomes. This paper will discuss the health habits and perceptions of the Foster family which was interviewed by this writer using Gordon’s assessment. Open ended questions were formulated to get an idea of how this family functions related to health promotion and the overall perception of their well being. The Foster family is a family consisting of a wife and husband in their fifties and a son who is 29. The wife and husband, M. Foster (wife), and D. Foster (husband) live alone, being that their child is grown and has moved out. The first assessment question is how the Foster family perceives their health. They view themselves as overall “healthy”. M. Foster states, “We try...
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