Family Assessment Susan Gerold-Terraza Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V May 12‚ 2013 Family Assessment Gordon’s functional health patterns is a method developed by Marjory Gordon‚ a nursing theorist and professor. The functional health patterns are to be used during the nursing process to obtain a more comprehensive assessment. There are 11 functional health patterns to in place to create a comprehensive assessment. The functional health patterns are values and health perception and
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foremost‚ Harrington & Daughetee (2014) stress the importance of knowing how I as a counselor feel about suicide. Competencies include knowledge and attitudes towards suicide as well as knowing if this client is a low‚ medium‚ or high risk‚ based on assessments (Harrington & Daughetee‚ 2014). My instinctive reaction to suicide is that I would want to help prevent it‚ if possible. I can understand my need to prevent it‚ equally as I can empathize with a client wanting to end their life to stop the pain
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The Giver INTRODUCTION The book was great! This book and its story are unique. The Giver is a deftly crafted work‚ both stunningly beautiful and deeply disturbing. Finding myself being imperceptibly lulled by the peace‚ order‚ safety and serenity of Jonas’s world; being awakened by the sickening thud of reality’s steel-toed boot in the gut‚ leaving both him and me breathless and disoriented in the aftermath. This story is haunting and powerful. It’s a raw portrayal of the presumed moral sacrifices
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Due to confidentiality i will name my clinical environment James ward. It is a 1-beded mixed ward that benefits from an adequate level of qualified staff that are approachable and values student’s personal initiation and involvement in educationally valuable activities. The Gibbs (1988) reflective framework will be used. There are journals and access to a computer‚ linked to the internet‚ which can be accessed by students for research on assigned topics‚ as part of their learning contract. The
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Topic: My Health Assessment Ashleigh R. Holden Kean University Abstract This assessment was performed on a 41 years old female with an average health. The patient is having some right hip pain and some limited ROM. She was a pleasant woman with a great understanding of her own health and her family health history. CK is slightly overweight‚ smokes and does not exercise enough. She is the mother of two children and the wife to RK for 15 years. Her mother is still alive and in healthy
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Running head: HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Focused Health Assessment Nancy E Gundersen Grand Canyon University NRS429v December 4‚ 2011 Family Focused Health Assessment This paper will assess a family interviewed using Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns. It will summarize the findings for each health pattern from a designated number of interview questions. The author identifies two wellness nursing diagnoses based on the author’s assessment of the family health patterns and the answers
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person. It was also stated that‚ whenever a person reads‚ they go through three response stages in what is labeled as their reading response analysis. These three stages are: perceptions‚ affective response‚ and associative response. The perceptions are the reader’s initial impressions in response to the text; the affective response is the raw emotion that the text produces in the reader; and the associative response is where the reader determines what is behind their initial impressions to the text
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patient’s cultural background. good Usefulness of Applying a Heritage Assessment Spector (2000) designed a Heritage Assessment Tool which helps health care providers determine how a person adheres to his or her tradition. I was born and raised in China. When I immigrated to America‚ I was in my middle age. Therefore‚ I believed that I’ve instinctively absorbed a great deal of Chinese culture. The Heritage Assessment Tool helped me to understand that the place where people were born and raised
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Community Health Nursing I Assessment and Diagnosis As a community health nurse a community assessment can be used to assess the community’s health competencies‚ as well as the connection amongst members of the community. It can serve as a starting point to address problem areas within a community; as well as be the foundation for strategizing to make conscious changes in the community. According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “a community assessment is a valuable strategy
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Heritage Assessment and Healthcare Roopneet kaur Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family-Centered Health Promotion The Heritage Assessment device is considered 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
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