Family Focused Health Assessment Questions - Lou Ann Lake
Family Focused Health Assessment
L. L.
Grand Canyon University
August 11, 2013
Family Focused Health Assessment
As the society we live in continues to transform, nurses need a comprehensive tool to assess family’s health patterns. Family units are influenced by environment, biological, mental, social and spiritual factors. Assessing these areas for health promotion and disease prevention will take all of these influences into consideration (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). A priority to a family focused health assessment approach is to adequately question, assess and examine these areas. A tool to assist a family health assessment using a family focused approach is Gordon’s 11 Functional Patterns. This paper will use these 11 patterns to assess a family’s health assessment using this methodology.
Functional Health Patterns
Using the functional patterns can unlock the information so the nurse can recognize and organize her nursing diagnosis, interventions and outcomes. Functional patterns can be both healthy and dysfunctional health patterns (Gordon, 2010). This paper will address health patterns through these 11 areas of functional patterns to promote wellness and health behaviors. By interviewing the Lake family using the screening manner presented by Gordon, both history (subjective) and examination (objective) data were evaluated. The goal is to develop a more in-depth assessment regarding two of the patterns, with a summarization for each functional health pattern.
Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
A focus functional pattern presented itself after the interview process. The Lake family describes their nutritional consumption as being healthy and nutritious. However, there is concern for Mr. Lake. He presents with a recent 15 pound weight loss with in the last 6 months, despite increasing his eating times and quantities. A family physician was consulted, a thorough health screening completed with no disorder or condition uncovered. Mrs. Lake
L. L.
Grand Canyon University
August 11, 2013
Family Focused Health Assessment
As the society we live in continues to transform, nurses need a comprehensive tool to assess family’s health patterns. Family units are influenced by environment, biological, mental, social and spiritual factors. Assessing these areas for health promotion and disease prevention will take all of these influences into consideration (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). A priority to a family focused health assessment approach is to adequately question, assess and examine these areas. A tool to assist a family health assessment using a family focused approach is Gordon’s 11 Functional Patterns. This paper will use these 11 patterns to assess a family’s health assessment using this methodology.
Functional Health Patterns
Using the functional patterns can unlock the information so the nurse can recognize and organize her nursing diagnosis, interventions and outcomes. Functional patterns can be both healthy and dysfunctional health patterns (Gordon, 2010). This paper will address health patterns through these 11 areas of functional patterns to promote wellness and health behaviors. By interviewing the Lake family using the screening manner presented by Gordon, both history (subjective) and examination (objective) data were evaluated. The goal is to develop a more in-depth assessment regarding two of the patterns, with a summarization for each functional health pattern.
Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern
A focus functional pattern presented itself after the interview process. The Lake family describes their nutritional consumption as being healthy and nutritious. However, there is concern for Mr. Lake. He presents with a recent 15 pound weight loss with in the last 6 months, despite increasing his eating times and quantities. A family physician was consulted, a thorough health screening completed with no disorder or condition uncovered. Mrs. Lake
References: Edelman, C. L., & Mandle, C. L. (2010). Health Promotion and the Family. Health promotion throughout the life span, (5th ed.) St. Louis, Missouri: Mosby Elsevier. Gordon, M. (2010). Functional health patterns typology. In (Ed.), Manual of nursing diagnosis (12th ed. (pp. 1-8). [Books.google.com]. Retrieved from http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=JjUka3YnGL8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&dq=Gordon%27s+11+functional+health+patterns&ots=labPKWb-4l&sig=g36u6R2mWtoiAT3rEO16xX8e2EQ#v=onepage&q=Gordon%27s%2011%20functional%20health%20patterns&f=false The form and function of the family. (2011). Retrieved from https://lc-ugrad1.gcu.edu/learningPlatform/user/users.html?operation=loggedIn#/learningPlatform/loudBooks/loudbooks.html?viewPage=past&operation=innerPage&topicMaterialId=75929f40-c9e1-44e2-8e01-b03a56f30bc1&contentId=4d88c0df-1c23-4c9b-b93c-14d97fb3a6ab&