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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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. Health
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PATTERNS IN NATURE QUESTIONS 1) State the cell theory 2) Outline the contributions of Robert Hooke and Robert Brown plus several others 3) Discuss how these developments helped to advance the cell theory Robert Brown’s microscope Robert Hooke’s microscope Transmission electron microscope Modern light microscope Scanning electron microscope 4) Describe evidence to support the cell theory 5) Discuss the significance of technological advances to developments
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Charlie Gordon is a 37 year old man with an IQ of around 68. For his whole life‚ he has only wanted to be "smart" like everyone else. Charlie has two doctors named Dr. Strauss and Dr. Nemur. The doctor’s want to use Charlie as a test subject to test out a surgery to increase the Human IQ. Ethics are if you really did the "right" thing‚ so Charlie’s doctor’s did not act ethically when performing the surgery on Charlie. They had not kept their choices opinion free‚ they had not put Charlie’s social
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. Family Assessment and Health Promotion Intervention Concerning Stress Overload The concept of the health is very difficult to define. It means different things to every family. A nurse should understand and recognize each family as unique and accept the definition of each family about health. Loveland-Cherry (2000) suggests that family health is seen as the abilities and resources that are available to a family to accomplish its developmental tasks . If the family is able to perform effectively
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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 patterns. Health patterns
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as well as differences in expected assessment across the childhood age groups. In the health perception category parents are responsible for their child’s perceived level of health and well-being‚ and on practices for maintaining health. In the school age years the children are beginning to incorporate their own health practices like good hygiene in their daily lives. The nutrition and metabolic pattern continues with help of the parents. Toddlers and preschoolers rely on their parents to make
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Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Laura L. Cooper Grand Canyon University: NRS 429V August 23‚ 2011 Family Health Assessment The term family brings to mind a visual image of adults and children living together in a harmonious manner‚ although this may not be the case for all. The “typical” family‚ two biological parents and children‚ has changed over time. Families are as diverse as the individuals that compose them‚ and clients have deeply ingrained values
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In the first video “Open-ended Questions to Encourage Conversation” the instruction that I observed‚ based upon the definition‚ did meet criteria 1 from the TPEP. The general idea of Criteria one is the expectations that teachers have for their students and is able to communicate those expectations. In the first video the teacher is using open-ended questions in order to have all students the chance to participate while doing a math activity with counting dots. In relationship to the first criteria
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Family Health Assessment Using Gordon’s functional health patterns to assess a family will guide the nurse in developing a comprehensive nursing assessment that is holistic in nature. Gordon’s functional health patterns are founded on 11 principles that are incorporated within the nursing practice. These 11 principles serve as a framework for a thorough nursing assessment in which to build a holistic and individual family care plan (Grand Canyon University‚ 2011). The author has developed family-focused
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