Family Health Assessment When it comes to defining family many people have many different ways to define family because it means something different to everyone. Overtime the typically family has changed and is much more diverse when it comes to the individuals that make up the family because of beliefs and values. The way that it is defined currently is a family is a set of interacting individual is related by blood‚ marriage‚ cohabitation‚ or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions
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nurse‚ it is important to remember the family has an important role in the paradigm of health promotion for the patient. The roles in which the family plays in assisting the patient and providing care are crucial to the health of the patient and the well being of the family as a whole. One tool to assess not only a patient and their views on different aspects of health‚ but an entire family or even community is Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns. This assessment tool incorporates eleven topics of health
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Running head: Family Health Assessment Joy Ebomwonyi Grand Canyon University: Family Centered Health Promotion: NRS 429v August 26‚ 2012 Open-Minded Family focused Questions I interview a family who were willing to answer the questions as long as they remained anonymous when the paper is written. I will not be using the name of the family that I interviewed for this assignment. The interview was based on the all the Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns
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ECH 5001 April 1st‚ 2013 Graduate Project Strengthening Families Self-Assessment & Analysis The Strengthening Families initiative is a strength based approach in preventing child abuse and neglect. It focuses on providing support‚ education and services for families with the intent to limit the likelihood of abuse and neglect for at risk families. There are five protective that are the foundation of the strengthening families approach. They are as follows: Parent Resilience Resilience
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Family Assessment Assignment The purpose of this paper is to present a family assessment. Community health nurses work with individual families and with families as an aggregate within the population (Clark‚ 2003). Several areas will be presented such as biophysical‚ psychological‚ physical environmental‚ sociocultural‚ behavioral and health system considerations. The data obtained during family health assessment enable the nurse to make informed decisions about the health care needs of families
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Family Health Assessment A family consists of a group of interacting individuals related by blood‚ marriage‚ cohabitation‚ or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. (Edelman‚ Kudzma‚ & Mandle‚ 2014‚ p. 150) The family has various functions that include teaching members’ values‚ morals and beliefs as they relate to health practices. Health can be defined as a complete state of wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease. Gordon’s functional health
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Family Health Assessment 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
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Family Health Assessment sonia Health Promotion (Course# NRS429) Dawn Peters May 14‚ 2011 The purpose of family assessment is to promote health and control or prevent control diseases affecting the families. During the assessment‚ the nurse will be able to evaluate the overall health status of the family‚ interpersonal relationship between individual members‚ and any chronological diseases in the family. Identifying the risk factors existing in the family will help the nurse
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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V June 17‚ 2013 Family Health Assessment Conducting a family health assessment utilizing a functional health patterns assessment is the first step in the nursing process to create health care plans for the individual or family. A thorough assessment lays the groundwork to promote family health.(Mandle‚ 2010‚ p. 175)The purpose of this paper is to look at one
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Emily.Lee.Week4.Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University: N429 May 12‚ 2013 Questions How would you describe your overall health? What are most important things you do to keep yourself healthy? What are your basic food intakes consist of? How is your appetite? Any weight gain or loss recently? How many hours do you sleep? Do you use any sleep aids? Any relaxation must before going to bed? Any ritual before going to bed? How is your elimination pattern? Do you have any problem
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