...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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...Dennis Brandon 3-19-2016 Nutrition Unit 4 Write a brief assessment of your journal assignment and answer the following questions: My journal was created over a 3 day period from 19 Mar thru 21 Mar with an average of 1797 calories eaten against a 2000 calorie diet per day. I did well to stay under my caloric intake goal of 2000, but if I want to lose the schedule weight that I plan on losing I need to adjust my caloric intake to eat a little least food per meal to get my caloric intake down to 1500 calories per day. I need to incorporate more fruit and vegetable in my diet and take away some of the potato chips and cookies. Most days I eat what I can when I can I do not really plan my diet, so if I was to take more time to plan what I am going to eat this would help me along with my goal of losing 10 pounds over the next six months. What are the recommendations discussed in My Plate? (10 points) My recommendation is should eat at least 6 ounces of grain per day, 21/2 cups of vegetables. 2 cups of fruit, 3 cups of dairy and 51/2 ounces of protein. How does your diet compare to the recommendations you received from My Plate? (10 points) I am eating 90% of grain, 40% of vegetables, 3% of fruit, 0% of dairy, and 217% of protein which is over the limit. How does your diet compare to the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, discussed in your textbook? (10 points) my diet is poor when I consider the U.S. guidelines my diet is not balanced enough to provide me with all the nutrients and vitamins...
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...BIOL 1301: Introduction to Biology Written Assignment Unit 1 Introduction Dieting is the methods of scientific practicing of eating food in a regulated and supervised way to decreases, maintain, or increase body weight. So that for my study experiment for this week written assignment I would like to more focus on and considering though out the fundamental scientific regulation Experimental method, Which that assessing the showed diet reducing processes determined the methods which analyzing the complete requirement. My study analysis is deciding to address and complete the assessment regulatory connection such as first observations and to answer the question, which that has asked to complete, this help, my assessment to answer the question,...
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...Promotion Plan Health Promotion Plan: Diet, Nurtrition (The Purpose of this Plan is to assist an individual to improve diet and nutrition through better food choices) Assessment Name: Linda Nowlin Describe a typical day, including eating times and places, activities, etc. Since I work nights, my typical eating times and places are not on a schedule like most people. When I’m at work, I eat around 10 pm to 1 am. Sometimes it is just grab something while standing or sometimes sitting. Sometimes, it is in front of a computer while charting. On my days off, I try to have a scheduled time to eat, such as breakfast around 8 am, lunch around 12 pm and dinner around 5-6 pm. My activity level has really dropped this winter. I did exercise at the YMCA 3-4 times per week, lately, I haven’t been at all, but I do want to get back to it. What vitamins or other supplements do you take? Include dosages. I currently don’t take any vitamins or supplements. What kind of dietary restrictions do you have? Are they self-imposed or medically imposed? Discuss how these impact your daily routine. I currently have no dietary restrictions either medically or self-imposed. Have you had any weight gain/loss within the last month? Please discuss. Over the past 6 months, I’ve had a slow weight loss and in the past month, I’ve probably lost about three pounds. I’ve had a lot of stress in my life and don’t always eat as I should and because of nerves, I think my metabolism may have risen a slight...
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...Culture, Heritage & Health Culture & Cultural Competency in Health Promotion Culture, Heritage & Health This paper will discuss culture and the cultural characteristics that can be associated with various groups and the affect it can have on one’s health in aspects of health protection, maintenance and restoration. It will also discuss the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool in providing better care for patients. The differences will be viewed based on culture in health protection, maintenance and restoration. A heritage assessment tool is a means to capture a snapshot view of one’s culture/heritage. Culture is defined as “an element of ethnicity, consists of shared patterns of values and behaviors that characterize a particular group. It is “shaped by values, beliefs, norms, and practices that are shared by members of the same cultural group” (Edelman & Mandle, 2006) In examining a patient’s heritage, it can provide an opportunity for better understanding in providing the best care possible for a patient. Madeleine Leininger is the founder of the transcultural nursing theory, but many have followed in her footsteps and built on that initial idea. The Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Model is another tool that can be used. The model encompasses six cultural phenomena to be assessed: 1) Communication, which encompasses verbal and non-verbal communication and can be seen as the biggest barrier in working with clients from different backgrounds...
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...Diet Scores and Comparing Food Records My second diet score went up and ended up being 10 points higher than my first diet score. I noticed that the individual scored that improved were me eating healthier, eating more fruit and vegetable servings, eating more calcium, and avoiding a lot of fast food meals. I think what helped me improve in these areas was for Lent, which is where I have to give up something for 40 days. So for Lent, I decided to give up meat, fast food, sweets, and anything but water. I think the only way my diet didn’t change or improve was me still not eating 3 meals a day. I still tend to eat big meals twice a day instead of eating 5-6 small meals a day or spreading out my eating times. I think what helped contributed to that was me not preparing my own meals, not eating at the right times or me just not being hungry. One similarity that I noticed from these two records was that I still eat only 2-3 big meals a day and don’t really know how to eat smaller portions. But I did notice that in my second records, I ate a healthy breakfast (yogurt and berries) all three days while in my first record, I would only eat a special K bar. Another difference that I noticed was that I didn’t have any fast food at all and ate more homemade meals, like tilapia with vegetables. I also noticed in the second records that I started to eat more servings of fruits and vegetables in my breakfast and dinners compared to my first records where I barely ate any servings of...
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...Heritage Assessment NRS-429V | Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion John Thomas 3/24/13 The Heritage Assessment tool is primarily used as a device to evaluate health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration of a person’s cultural beliefs and values (Spector, 2006). This assessment helps aid in providing quality patient care in that it helps to meet and respect the needs of different types of people and their respective backgrounds (Spector, 2002). This particular paper serves to compare and contrast the ethnicities of Indian, Caucasian, and Arabic families using health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration as evaluation markers. The purpose was to identify and isolate different groups of people and their unique health practices and traditions that were based off their heritage or background. An assessment of these ethnicities led to several discoveries that I believe could truly improve our methods of health care. Cultural awareness is an essential part of life, especially in this country that is considered to be the melting pot of the world. Cultural awareness can be defined as understanding and appreciation the difference between oneself and people of other backgrounds and cultural beliefs (Shen, 2004). Cultural competence is a term used to refer to awareness and skill acquired to be able to care for people of different ethnicities and cultures (Purnell, 2002). The heritage assessment tool serves as a questionnaire of sorts...
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...resides in a household with her husband, and adult son. Retirement has not equated with rest and relaxation for my client as she also takes care of two of her adult brothers in poor health. Three granddaughters have been the source of joy for her as they’ve grown from precious infants to teenagers. My client also assumes the role of family matriarch for her other nine siblings. With many demands for time and attention, I predicted the needs assessments to direct us towards stress management. The results we received sent out project in another direction. With my initial prediction of the focus needed being on stress management, I had my client complete the Holmes and Rahe Stress Scale (Holmes and Rahe, n.d.) first. In spite of numerous responsibilities and various family members always seeking advice, her score was only a 16. Scores below 150 represent only a slight risk of illness due to stress. The one area where stress does affect my client is in her sleeping habits. Many nights she experiences insomnia while contemplating current family situations, and consequentially suffers from fatigue. My client’s concern over taking care of everyone else leaves little time for her to focus on herself. The remainder of our assessments helped to point out what she already knew about her nutrition and physical activity levels. The results of the LiveWell assessment gave a composite score of 60%. This score indicates that the client’s present lifestyle needs to be reassessed,...
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...journal Entry Your Name: 1. Refer to the MyPlate Diet assessment and answer this question: * Briefly discuss what you have learned about your protein intake. Does it exceed or fall short of recommendations? My protein intake exceeds the recommendations, i believe the reason that it exceeds is because i tend to eat a lot of meat, and drink protein shakes after my workout. 2. Use the Score Card on page 139 to estimate usual protein intake. * How much? 86 grams * Discuss the sources (plant or animal) of your protein. The main source of protein for me is animal.. I don't like eating veggies so i just tend to eat a lot of meats. 3. You do not have to become a vegetarian, but most people can improve their diet by including less animals and more plants. Choose 1 protein related goal and set a smart goal. Specific | To cut down on the meat protein and try to eat more veggies. | Measurable | To monitor the amount of veggies and meats per day. | Acceptable | To try to incorporate veggies with my meat. | Realistic | To start drinking a veggie shake. | Time-specific | Have my meat and veggie protein equal. | 4. Please write your journal entry below. You can choose to reflect on this assignment or anything else that you feel is related to your diet and/or exercise. After completing this weeks assignment, it had really opened my eyes that i need to consume more vegetables and that my diet is only based around meat. I hate eating vegetables...
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...Family Health Assessment Darcy Martin Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V, Family Centered Health Promotion 10/19/14 “Holism and the totality of the person’s interactions with the environment form the philosophical foundations of Gordon’s functional health patterns. This foundation provides a context for collecting data that provide information about the entire person and most life processes. By examining functional patterns and interactions among patters, nurses accurately determine and diagnose actual or potential problem, intervene more effectively, and facilitate movement toward outcomes to promote health and well-being.” (Gordon, 2011; taken from Edelman, 2014, pg.130) “In addition to providing a framework to asses individuals, families and communities holistically, functional health patters provide a strong focus for more effective nursing interventions and outcomes.” (Edelman, 2014, pg. 130) A health assessment using Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns was performed on a 67 year old Caucasian female. The data collected as well as analysis of that data will be discussed in the following paragraphs. When questioned about medical problems and perception of overall health, it was revealed that this persons overall perception of her health was good. However, she suffers from chronic headaches and was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer two years ago with a lumpectomy and radiation treatment. Since the breast cancer diagnosis, she has made some changes in lifestyle...
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...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 initiative was adopted in reference to obesity. This is when the WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was born. The initiative focuses on actions that need to be taken...
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...themselves, by having figuring out their current fitness status. They need to also evaluate the exercises and activities they have been doing and improve their programs that will help make improvements towards their goal. Fitness and wellness isn’t all about working out, the individual needs to work on a diet plan and ways to control metabolic functions. Exercise and eating healthy are inseparable and come hand & hand with one another. Many people in the United States have struggled to eat healthy and also stay with a work out routine, which has resulted in an increase in obesity in America. Good health is just as important as fitness is, so it is important to create a good balance in order to achieve a high quality of life. To get a full understanding on where you stand on your health and fitness levels, you should regularly assess yourself. There are some specific attributes that an individual should check often to properly judge where they stand on their health and fitness levels. Doing an assessment on your fitness level is a great way to find out how healthy you are and your physical abilities. Before you start any exercise program, it is best to start by doing an assessment so that you know your fitness level before proceeding. Muscular strength and endurance is one of the first things you should check because it is apart of your everyday life, such as walking. According to Livestrong.com, “Muscular strength is the ability...
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...to be cultural competent, understanding and appreciating one’s beliefs to “work and function effectively with people having different values, beliefs, and ideas about nursing, health, caring, wellness, illness, death, and disabilities (Edelman & Mandle, 2009).” For this paper, three families of different cultures and or ethnic groups where interviewed using the Heritage Assessment Tool. This paper will highlight areas of the Arab American, Panamanian American and Asian American regarding how maintaining their health, protecting their health and restoring their health is influenced by cultural values. The Heritage Assessment Tool is comprised of 29 questions that gives an individual, such as a health care professional, the ability to see the person as a whole when caring for them and being able to see the culture values, beliefs, and traditions one holds in regards to their health. It helps the health professional develop a care plan that will incorporate the patients beliefs and traditions in their ethnic group and or religion. A group of questions asked in the Heritage Assessment Tool that represents a significant factor...
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...Obesity Capstone Implementation Project Dr. Reid Hope Locklear UNCW Obesity This process of this project was focused on Obesity in which I used information from my Community Assessment to help prepare this project. During completion of the Community Assessment it became clear that one of the major disadvantages that my community suffered from was Obesity. My target audience included a group of participates that range in the age of 20-35 years old in equal numbers of both female and male participates. Teaching was conducted at the local Bariatric Center. My goal in this project was to make participates more aware of the risk associated with obesity and teach them a healthier lifestyle. Program Objective: The objective to this teaching plan was to have participates be able to recall ways to have healthier choices in regards to diet and exercise. They would be able to demonstrate a knowledge base on the way to lead a more heather lifestyle. In the first stage of this teaching experience I wanted to get a base as to what members of the group felt it meant to be obese and their view on obesity and risk associated with this disease. I asked the question to 10 participates within this group if the participate was aware that Obesity was a disease? 10 out of 10 stated that they were not aware that obesity was a disease. I proceeded to ask the participates to use one word to describe...
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...Heritage Assessment Grand Canyon University: NRS429 June 13, 2014 Heritage Assessment The increasing population of immigrants in the United States has contributed to health disparities in the health care system. Cultural competence can remove health disparities by eliminating personal biases, and treating every person with respect. Simply recognizing and accepting different cultures is not enough, one must be able to consistently recognize and understand the differences in order to be culturally competent. Knowledge and culturally competent practices are a must for nurses to deliver quality care in our rapidly changing multicultural world (Edelman, 2014 p. 25). The heritage assessment tool is a set of questions that can be used to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage. The tool is helpful in assessing how deeply a person is tied to their traditions, and can help nurses become culturally competent. The greater the number of positive responses reflects how closely one is tied to their particular heritage. Once the history is learned and the degree which one identifies with the tradition is discovered, the focus is placed on discovering the role that the tradition plays in the situation (Culture Guide, 2014). Family Interviews I interviewed three families from different cultures to see how closely they were bound to their heritage. The families originally were from China, Vietnam, and England. The families all moved to the United States when...
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