Family Health Assessment Gcu
Family Health Assessment
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion
Family health assessment is an integral part of the formula used in creating a customized plan of care for the families’ health care. Family health assessment is also a tool that can be used to identify and evaluate the family’s health concerns, their life style and also helping families make good decisions regarding their family’s health. Family’s perception towards health and health promotion could be very different and unique, which makes the Family health assessment even more challenging for the nurses and health care professionals. Nurse’s have a moral obligation towards the society to help them promote their families health. The family means biological parents and children living together in a harmonious way. In this diverse society family’s behaviors and health care choices are influenced by family’s beliefs, values, culture and traditional practices. Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns is created by Marjorie Gordon in 1987. This helps nurses to establish a broader nursing database. Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns consist of health perception, values, rest, sleep, nutrition, elimination, cognitive, activity, exercise, role relationship, self perception, sexuality and coping. This method is created to gather information using a standardized and systematic approach. The gathered data can be used to determine family’s health, functioning, how family’s deal and interact with each other in everyday life. In this assessment the family interviewed is the Rodriguez family consisting of father 45 years of age, mother 42 years of age and two children, a boy and a girl aged 12 and 16. Head of the house hold is the father, who works in construction of houses and earns average income. Most of the times this family are short of funds, but the family is able to provide three meals a day to the family and send children to school.
Values, health perception
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion
Family health assessment is an integral part of the formula used in creating a customized plan of care for the families’ health care. Family health assessment is also a tool that can be used to identify and evaluate the family’s health concerns, their life style and also helping families make good decisions regarding their family’s health. Family’s perception towards health and health promotion could be very different and unique, which makes the Family health assessment even more challenging for the nurses and health care professionals. Nurse’s have a moral obligation towards the society to help them promote their families health. The family means biological parents and children living together in a harmonious way. In this diverse society family’s behaviors and health care choices are influenced by family’s beliefs, values, culture and traditional practices. Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns is created by Marjorie Gordon in 1987. This helps nurses to establish a broader nursing database. Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns consist of health perception, values, rest, sleep, nutrition, elimination, cognitive, activity, exercise, role relationship, self perception, sexuality and coping. This method is created to gather information using a standardized and systematic approach. The gathered data can be used to determine family’s health, functioning, how family’s deal and interact with each other in everyday life. In this assessment the family interviewed is the Rodriguez family consisting of father 45 years of age, mother 42 years of age and two children, a boy and a girl aged 12 and 16. Head of the house hold is the father, who works in construction of houses and earns average income. Most of the times this family are short of funds, but the family is able to provide three meals a day to the family and send children to school.
Values, health perception
References: Ross, C. E., Mirowsky, J., & Goldsteen, K. (1990, Nov, 1990). The Impact of the Family on Health (Journal). Journal of Marriage and Family, 52. Retrieved from www.jstor.org/pss/353319 Weber, J. R. (2005). Nurses ' Handbook of Health Assessment, 5th Edition.