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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Nursing and Health Promotion Casey M. Smith Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V April 21‚ 2013 The World Health Organization (WHO) describes health promotion as allowing society to control elements of personal health‚ through intelligent‚ healthy decisions. Health promotion improves the resourcefulness of people to be accountable‚ and the capacity of organizations and communities to guide the determinants of health. Due to the multitude of determinants of health‚ health promotion needs
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NURSING HEALTH HISTORY Nursing Health History is the gathering of subjective and objective data from the patient and his/her significant others through an interview‚ physical assessment‚ reviewing his/her past health history and through his/her medical records upon admission. Vital data of the patient are stated in chronological order to effectively assess patient’s needs‚ complaints and problems and to provide individual care. These vital data provide a conceptual baseline data utilized in developing
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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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Health Promotion in Nursing Practice EZIAKU J OLIVER Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion January 13‚ 2013 Health promotion is defined by the world health organization as the process of enabling people to increase control over‚ and to improve‚ their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions
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Health Assessment Family health assessment is a process by which to examine and evaluate the level of health in a family. Traditionally‚ a nuclear family is a basic social group consisting of parents and their children. In today’s society‚ it is common place to encounter blended families as well. Blended families are established through the unification of two parents and their children from previous relationships. Regardless of whether a family group is nuclear or blended‚ the family unit has a belief
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Family Health Assessment Melody Moore Grand Canyon University NRS-429V Instructor: Renita Holmes May 10th 2013 Family Health Assessment A comprehensive family assessment provides a foundation to promote family health (Edelman&Mandle‚ 2011).Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method developed by Marjorie Gordon in 1987 in which she proposed functional health patterns as a guide to establishing a comprehensive data base.(Kriegler&Harton‚1992).Gordon’s eleven functional health
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INTRODUCTION Pediatric nursing or child health nursing is the specialty nursing care of infants‚ children and adolescents. Pediatric nursing is an excellent career for those who love kids and don’t mind hard work. The day of a pediatric nurse can be hectic‚ working with patients that range from newborns to teenagers. No two days are ever the same. Pediatric nurses work mostly on the pediatric halls in hospitals‚ although some may also work in a doctor’s office. The work involved
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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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Family Health Assessment ********** ********* Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V January 26‚ 2012 Family Health Assessment Performing a family assessment‚ rather than focusing on the individual‚ incorporates on a broader level the environmental and social influences and determinants of health. The typical family has changed over time from what was composed of two biological parents and their children‚ to being as disparate as the individual. The family is the primary social environment
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