Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY Family Centered Health Promotion NRS-429V June 17‚ 2013 Family Health Assessment Conducting a family health assessment utilizing a functional health patterns assessment is the first step in the nursing process to create health care plans for the individual or family. A thorough assessment lays the groundwork to promote family health.(Mandle‚ 2010‚ p. 175)The purpose of this paper is to look at one
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among the lowest in the world. A number of “new morbidities” have been identified to pose major challenges to child health in the next decades. They are chronic medical illnesses‚ developmental disabilities‚ learning problems‚ injuries and neglect‚ behavioural disturbances and disorders‚ sequelae associated with unhealthy life-styles‚ and social and emotional disorders. The need for a comprehensive child development programme is therefore obvious. The main objectives are identification and treatment
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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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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 of families evolve and
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Family Health Assessment and Review Grand Canyon University: Family-Centered Health Promotion February 8‚ 2013 Assessing a patient on the basis of the whole person is a necessary step and in some cases yields the most useful information aiding diagnosis and swift treatment. Marjorie Gordon developed a family assessment consistent of 11 categories to help evaluate functional health patterns. Based upon Gordon’s data collection technique‚ I’ve devised a simple questionnaire and conducted an
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Individual Client Health History and Examination Grading Criteria | Possible Points | Points Earned | Instructor’s Comments | Health History/Review of Systems: *Information is complete. *Information is appropriate‚ demonstrating understanding of the specified information. * No errors in spelling or grammar. |
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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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Community Health Assessment: Case of King County My community is King County in Seattle‚ WA; the county is faced with many socio-economic and political challenges. For example‚ a considerable percentage of its population comprises low-income earners with some having low education levels; as a result‚ they also face major health threats. In addition‚ there is a shortage of healthcare facilities and providers‚ and hence the entire population faces major health challenges. To conduct an analysis and
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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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Maslow’s Assessment Test La’Shaundra Young Swift Dr. Lunceford PSY 330 March 29‚ 2009 Maslow’s Assessment Test Maslow’s hierarchy of needs‚ theorized by Abraham Maslow‚ details the importance of needs‚ often visualized in a pyramid format. . The higher needs‚ in the higher‚ only come into play‚ once the lower levels needs are met. The online assessment‚ at SimilarMinds.com‚ scored me in comparisonto Maslow’s theory‚ by having me to answer thirty-six questions. My responses were scored according
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