Family Health Assessment Grand Canyon University September 29‚ 2012 Family Health Assessment Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns is a system that was created by Marjorie Gordon in 1987. This system served as a guide to establishing a broader nursing database. These assessments include things such as evaluations of patterns within a family with corresponding details in an interdependent pattern. Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns consist of values/health perception‚ nutrition‚ sleep/rest
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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment The notion of family is universal‚ although with differences in its designs and structures among different peoples of the world. Family is the vital element of the society. Stable family units make firm society and vice versa. Therefore‚ the significance of a strong and healthy family structure cannot be over emphasized. Fostering health and healthy behaviors becomes a developmental task for functional family process (Pender‚
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Health Assessment Family health assessment in a vital tool that helps the family be aware of any problems concerning planning and maintaining good health. The nurse plays an important role in assessing the health of a family with the use of the 11 Gordon’s functional health patterns. The use of open ended questions enables the nurses to determine the present and past health state of a family. Functional health patterns provide a framework for the planning of care and health promotion (Flannigan
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Functional Health Assessment Joann Mirville-Noriega‚ RN Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion December 1‚ 2013 Family Functional Health Assessment Interview Nursing theorist Marjorie Gordon developed‚ in 1987‚ functional health patterns as a tool guide‚ used by nurses as a comprehensive data collection during patient assessments. Functional health pattern enables the nurses to identify and determine all aspects of health and human function (Kosher‚ 2013).
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Family Health Assessment for the Nursing Process Michelle Garcia Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion Terese Verklan September 28‚ 2014 Family Health Assessment for the Nursing Process Family health as a whole is an integral part of the development of healthy individuals. In order for the family to produce healthy individuals they need to function well holistically in all aspects of family life including health and wellness. If even one individual in the family
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Family Assessment Assignment As a nurse practicing in today’s health care environment it is always important to be very attentive for the needs of the patient and the patient’s family. In order to realize the needs of the patient and the patients loved ones it is often helpful to conduct a family assessment. This assessment was carried out on an urban family which is in the middle income group. Some of the factors which were inferred from the assessment were as follows. In terms of values‚ health
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Running head: HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Focused Health Assessment Nancy E Gundersen Grand Canyon University NRS429v December 4‚ 2011 Family Focused Health Assessment This paper will assess a family interviewed using Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns. It will summarize the findings for each health pattern from a designated number of interview questions. The author identifies two wellness nursing diagnoses based on the author’s assessment of the family health patterns and the answers
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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT My family health assessment was conducted using the 11 Gordon functional health pattern. Marjorie Gordon’s functional health pattern is a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing date base‚ using the 11 categories enable nurses determines the following aspects of health and human function (Gordon 1987). The Gordon 11 functional health patterns are health perception/health management‚ nutrition‚ elimination‚ activity/exercise‚ cognitive
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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Grand caynon University April 22‚ 2012 Family Health Assessment Introduction Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns (2007) help organize basic family assessment information (Friedman et al.‚ 2003). The writer of this paper will focus on health assessment of a Nigerian family after a thorough interview of Mr & Mrs Amadi and their two daughters. Mr Amadi is 48yrs‚ Mrs Amadi is 43yrs‚ the first daughter is 14yrs and the
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Family Assessment Susan Gerold-Terraza Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V May 12‚ 2013 Family Assessment Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method developed by Marjory Gordon‚ a nursing theorist and professor. The functional health patterns are to be used during the nursing process to obtain a more comprehensive assessment. There are 11 functional health patterns to in place to create a comprehensive assessment. The functional health patterns are values and health perception and
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