Complete the family genetic history form below. Indicate if any information is N/A (not applicable) or unknown. Indicate any information the person did not want to disclose by noting “Does not want to disclose.”…
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.…
The global societies that inhabit the Earth in today 's modern time, are theorized to all be genetically linked to a single African female, believed to have lived 60,000 years ago. This extraordinary finding has inspired a global project to unveil the migration journey of the homo sapien (Man).…
The Heritage Assessment Tool is designed to “give nurses an understanding of the patient’s traditional health and illness beliefs and practices so that culturally appropriate interventions can be initiated. The tool is a series of twenty nine questions. These twenty nine questions are designed to determine a patient’s ethnic, cultural, and religious background,” (Flowers, D.L., 2005). Within this paper, the author will summarize the assessment results of three different families, all varying in ethnic backgrounds and culture. These results will then be used to elaborate on how a nurse would incorporate health promotion based on the findings of the traditions between the varying cultures.…
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) is a branch of National Institutes of Health (NIH) that focuses on promoting and improving the health of individual, families, community, and population through its supports for research on the biological and behavior aspects that threaten the nation. NINR’s focus on improving health by developing strategies for health promotion and disease prevention; building scientific foundation for clinical practice; and managing and eradicating symptoms caused by illness, and improving palliative and end-of-life care. NINR’s are also involve in assessing disease risk and response to treatment with the use of genetic information: determining community- based approach that facilitates health promotion; and…
The purpose of this paper is to incorporate one family's experience of living with multiple chronic illnesses into the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) and Rolland's Chronic Health Challenge Framework. CFAM was developed by Dr. Lorraine M. Wright, a professor Emeritus of nursing and by Dr. Maureen Leahey, a manager of a mental health outpatient program both have over 25 years experience while still managing to supervise, teach, consult, write, and maintain a part-time clinical practice in individual, couple, and family therapy (Moxie, 2007). CFAM allows nurses to assess families during interviews. CFAM is a multidimensional framework consisting of three major categories: structural, dimensional and functional. (Wright & Leahey, 2005) Each category has its own subcategories, with the ability to pull out family strengths, weaknesses and roles of possible resources the family has or may need. These topics help the nurse assess the family's perspectives at that particular moment in their lives and allows the nurse to help with any problems or challenges the family may face. The family interviewed was a gentleman living with cystic fibrosis, diabetes, life threatening asthma and metabolic myopathies. For confidentiality, each family members name has been changed. The gentleman living with the chronic illness will be named Bob Jones, Bobs mother will be named Sue Jones, Bobs girlfriend will go by Jane, and the 2 year old daughter will be named Anna.…
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.…
What is a heritage assessment? A heritage assessment is a subpart to the overall nursing assessment. Assessing a patient’s heritage allows the nurse to obtain more information about a patient’s culture, including beliefs about health and values, this is important to providing cultural health care. One’s heritage includes information about their cultural beliefs and practices of the family and ethno religious community (Jarvis, C., 2012). Through a heritage assessment the nurse can obtain a vast amount of information about the patient/ family, including but not limited to, where ancestors were born, how many siblings they have, if the family originated in another country, how often time is spent with family, religion, if the patient prefers the company of people with the same values and religion or ethnic background, what type of foods the patient prepares, and the patient’s native language. This paper will discuss what the author learned from completing a heritage assessment tool, the usefulness of a heritage assessment tool when assessing a patient/ family/ community as a whole. This paper will also compare the health traditions of three different families (and cultures) to include, health maintenance, health protection, and health restoration, while identifying common traditions based on the author’s heritage. What the families ascribe their traditions to will also be discussed.…
“A family is a set of interacting individuals related by marriage, blood, and adoption or by cohabitation interdependently perform relevant functions to fulfill expected role” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). Systems theory allows a nurse to view patient as a whole family unit, which the action of each member will influence one another. Family developmental theory is to assist the patients through every stage of life. Gordon’s functional health patterns are eleven principles incorporated with the nursing process to collect data, assess patients and families, and provide a diagnosis for the patient and family based on the norms. Gordon’s functional health patterns help nurses assess health patterns of their family as one unit that relates to their health needs, and modify nursing practice accordingly (Edelman & Mandle, 2010).…
Through the heritage assessment, which is a benefit for nurses in their practice, they are able to evaluate the patient as a whole, their family, including where their ancestors were born, their ethnic background, how many siblings they have, where their family originated from, how often time they spend with family, their religion, their native language, do they speak, write or read with their language, if they prefer keeping company with people of the same value and religion or ethnic background, and what type of food they prefer.…
This paper will focus on a family assessment performed by using a family centered approach known as Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns. Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns help organize basic family assessment information (Edelman & Mandel, 2012). The functional patterns help nurses to better assess a family and develop a proper nursing diagnosis for the family which results in better results for the family. The author of this paper will be focusing on a health assessment of an African American family after a thorough interview. The family consists of two adults Mr. & Mrs. Ransome and their two children. Mr. Ransome is 52 yrs. old, Mrs. Ransome is 49 yrs. old, their daughter is 10 yrs. old and their son is 14 yrs. old. The interview conducted uses Gordon’s 11 function health patterns to assist with the assessment and is followed by two wellness nursing diagnoses concluded based…
Calzone, K. A., Cashion, A., Feetham, S., Jenkins, J., Prows, C. A., Williams, J. K., & Wung, S. F. (2010). Nurses transforming health care using genetics and genomics. Nursing outlook, 58(1), 26-35.…
a. Know what chronic diseases, such as cancer that could be passed down genetically from relatives.…
The high risk obstetrician or perinatologist is chosen to assist in Rita 's prenatal care, as well as providing individualized care to optimize her health discuss and fetal well being. The OB is who referred her to a geneticist for testing. Chorionic Villus Testing or CVS is usually performed between 10 and 12 weeks, this is where a sample is received from the developing placenta either through a thin tube inserted through the vagina or by inserting a needle through the abdomen. the placenta contains cells that are genetically identical to those of the fetus and the cells are examined for the presence of genetic diseases. Since Mr. and Mrs. Trosack are remarkably healthy, when receiving the news of their unborn child having Tay Sach 's they became very distraught. They do not understand how this could have happened and vacillate between…
My subject for this interview is a 17-year-old, Caucasian adolescent male in a middle class Socio-economic status. He comes from a family of highly educated parents and resides in the Middle East Tennessee area, a small town in a rural environment. I have known this subject for almost two years now. He emigrated from Russia with his family in 2009 and settled in Tennessee. Since, my mother and I are also Russian speaking emigrants our moms found each other fairly quickly through mutual English courses in the local church. We are sharing a very friendly relationship between our families; spending holidays, birthdays and other happy occasions together. My first impression of my subject was that he was extremely shy and unsocial; however, after the ice between us was broken, he opened up to me and we shared a lot of interesting conversations. Needless to say, I am approaching this interview from a biased point of view since I know and like this young man. However, I will try my best to remain objective and critical for the sake of this report. To conduct this interview, I contacted my subject and asked him to meet me at my house. To be completely honest, I had my doubts regarding this interview because I had to be extremely cautious not to make him feel uncomfortable with my questions; however, I feel that my goal of getting to know him a little more personally and be able to understand his age group was reached.…