The author also talks about involving family in taking important health care decisions. She gives an example of…
Family is considered the natural and fundamental unit of the society. The family members make up the family as a structure. Family includes members of different age group from newborns to elders. The family’s activities and reactions influence the patterns of the family as a whole (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle 2014, p.2014). The ultimate goal of the nursing is to expedite the health of the family. Family…
Nurses need to understand and utilize the theoretical perspective to assess and achieve goals for families throughout their practice. By having a greater understanding of these theories, nurses can promote healthy habits and relations for all families. It also, help the nurse to recognize that family plays a huge role in the well-being of the patients since “family members are the first influence on a person's view of health” (Grand Canyon Univeristy, 2015); therefore, they need to be part of our nursing plan in order to better achieve the health care needs of our patients.…
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A nursing assessment of a family is the basis of nursing interventions. Stanhope and Lancaster (2008) state, “By using a systematic process, family problem areas are identified and family strengths are emphasized as the building blocks for interventions and to facilitate family resiliency (p. 567). The following will discuss a family who has become more typical in this day and age. The family consists of father (RLA) 35 years old, mother (MCC) 32 years old, one son (ECC) eleven years old, one daughter (GAC) nine years old, and second daughter (MCA) six months old.…
Marjorie Gordon in 1987 recommended functional health patterns as a model for launching a comprehensive nursing data base. The eleven groupings make possible a methodical and systemized approach to data collection, and facilitate the nurse to establish the following characteristics of health and human function. A detailed assessment positions the groundwork to promote health and wellbeing within the family. Gordon’s eleven functional health designs include the following, values and beliefs, health perception and health management,…
The content of this paper is to thoroughly analyze the relationships and functionality of the family chosen to be studied and assessed. By assessing, incorporating the lessons taught throughout the past five weeks in this class and inter-relating the family’s sociocultural background, communication patterns, physical environment setting, values and beliefs, power and role structure, communication patterns, adaptation and level of development as well as their healthcare decisions, a practicing, licensed nurse can use these inferences as guidance and/or resource when dealing with similar encounters while delivering patient care at their respective work places.…
The Family Structural Theory provides a method in which a nurse is able to identify how family members interact with one another to establish a baseline. These interactions create patterns of behavior that the nurse is able to focus on when assessing how, why, and under what circumstances family members behave in their assumed roles, how they are organized as a family, what their established boundaries are, and how they are able to adapt when faced with change, illness, or crisis. If these family interactions are failing to yield positive outcomes, the nurse can use the Family Structural Theory to facilitate improvement in family functioning (Minuchin, & Fishman, 2004).…
They do not deny one another if sex is desired or needed by the other partner. Sex is required in a healthy relationship and is recognized as helping to maintain a closeness and united relationship between the two. Spending quality time with each other is also important in making sure to allow for and keep a spark between them reserved for intimacy. The couple has recognized that by maintaining quality time spent together, it impacts their love life in a positive way which reflects in their daily life by decreasing fights, tension,…
Family health assessment is a great tool to utilize to develop health care plans for the…
“Family” can have many definitions and meanings. To one person, family may consist of having a mother, father, and children. While to another, family may mean a mother, grandmother, aunts and uncles. Regardless of how one interprets this term, child development can be directly affected by the family system in which a child is raised.…
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 system that is influential on all members. This belief system is comprised of a set of learned behaviors and values that in part influence choices that members in regards to health. Performing a family health assessment allows health professionals…
My interest in the elderly dates back to my childhood. Growing up with my grandparents greatly influenced my values and personality: they taught me to be self-motivated and disciplined. Their resilience and support has helped me to persevere even when confronted with seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Because of their kindness toward me I have a deep respect for them and for elderly people in general. This is what motivates me to become involved in the field of social work.…
Family is seen in a different way by every person built on individual’s understandings. Family, in other words, may not necessarily involve at all times persons linked by blood (Friedman, Bowden, & Jones 2003). In health care organizations patients presenting to the facilities, are taken care of as well as their families. Families described in health care organization are seen as a support group or system of the person whose well-being is compromised. In our health care industry today, support group functions and roles of families are carried out in different forms and shape based on the health condition of the patient (Friedman,…
The nurse may assess the family as part of the patient’s support system but may not include the family in the plan of care. Family as Sum of its Parts is associated with community health nursing where the individual family members (not one individual, but all members individually) are the focus. The Family Subsystem as Client focuses on the interpersonal relationship of the family. These relationships include the parent-child relationship and marital relationships. The Family as Client centers the focus on family dynamics and relationships. The family is the primary focus and the individual family members are secondary. Finally, the Family as a Component of Society is where the family is seen as a part of a larger system. The family here is on the large scale or institutional size. The family is considered an institution, or component of society, just as religious or educational institutions…