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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Family Health Assessment and Review Grand Canyon University: Family-Centered Health Promotion February 8‚ 2013 Assessing a patient on the basis of the whole person is a necessary step and in some cases yields the most useful information aiding diagnosis and swift treatment. Marjorie Gordon developed a family assessment consistent of 11 categories to help evaluate functional health patterns. Based upon Gordon’s data collection technique‚ I’ve devised a simple questionnaire and conducted an
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The purpose of this paper is to complete a family assessment on a family that is at least two people in the home and have a health issue. A family assessment includes gathering information such as demographic and environment data; family structure and function; and health care function. The Shega’s family is a nuclear type of family consisting of the parents and their children. The father named Enton is 40 year old that works as truck driver here in the USA with a baccalaureate degree on English
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Family Centered Assessment Paper Abstract The assessment explores the dynamics of a blended family‚ focusing on the children of the family unit. The key topics that will be explored are: family arrangement & type‚ statistical data; age‚ gender‚ income‚ education‚ family life cycle‚ ethnicity‚ religion‚ child rearing strategies‚ communication skills‚ strengths & weaknesses‚ stressors‚ the ability to cope‚ present problems‚ and self-worth
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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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Family Assessment and Nursing Process According to Stanhope & Lancaster (2001)‚ a family nursing assessment is considered to be the cornerstone for family nursing interventions and is used in a systematic fashion for the identification of the family ’s developmental stages and risk factors. There are many tools available that provide guidelines for how to best get to know a family and to determine their strengths and weaknesses. One such tool is the Friedman Family Assessment tool which provides
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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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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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Family Health Assessment: Analysis of Family Focused Questionnaire Renee Rao Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V August 31‚ 2014 While interviewing a families health patterns‚ there were many areas assessed. Several questions have been asked regarding numerous aspects of their life. These family focused questions will help us explore into their health‚ cognition and overall wellbeing. Based on the responses‚ a family diagnosis was formulated. In this paper‚ we will explore the questions
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