Essays on Family Assessment

Healthcare has been experiencing tremendous transformations in the recent past, and this can be attributed to the changing health needs of the people. To adapt to these changes, the models of care delivery, care services, and even the personnel, have changed as well. Also, there is an increasing need to provide patient-centered and culturally sensitive care, as cultural diversity continues to pose a challenge to the delivery of holistic care. One approach of delivering care services is by focusing on a family, identifying the specific health needs of such families, and developing plans of treatment that are focused on ...

Nursing assessment involves gathering of all the details and necessary information about a patient’s psychological, physiological, spiritual and sociological status. Genogram and ecomap are two tools of Calgary family assessment and intervention model which are helpful as the nursing assessment tools, which the paper is going to discuss one by one. Calgary Family Assessment Model is a nursing assessment tool that is generally used by the family nurses to know about the three fundamental areas of the family structure, the gender of all family members and their extended family relationships along with other internal and external factors (Wright & ...

Introduction

With the various changes witnessed in the society’s demographic structure and delivery of the healthcare services, the nursing profession is largely recognizing the importance of the family in regard to the wellbeing as well as the health of individuals and families. Essentially, nursing practice involves caring for individuals as well as families whereby this requires nurses to have the relevant skills and knowledge to enable them work with families and foster healthy choices among individuals and families (Carlson & Carlson, 2014). As such, in order to establish healthy and collaborative relationships and foster the involvement of families in their ...

The Strengths and Stressors tracking device indicated an adequate environment (including stability in housing, safety in community, food and nutrition, personal hygiene, transportation). The results indicated that an inadequate attention is paid to the learning environment needs of the child, as indicated by lack of school supplies in the home as well as frequent school absences.(“Strengths and Stressors Tracking Device”, n.d.) The clear area of stress as indicated by Strengths and Stressors test was in the area of Family and Caregivers (“Strengths and Stressors Tracking Device”, n.d.) In this part of the instrument, respondents are asked to rate ...

SSRS is made of 43 events in life which are placed into two categories; individual life style related event and the event that occurred and include the individual. Ranking of items are on a scale of 100 and includes events such as death of a spouse = 100, marriage =50, retirement =45, change in sleeping habits =16, vacation =13, people are asked to complete the checklist, depending on the number of life events that are listed that have occurred within the past year. Comparison to the scale is then made to the total scores that show the possible of an individual developing a ...

Herzing University

Introduction An assessment refers to a process that is use to gather and organize information. Family assessment achieves this through ways that enable a family to avoid and tackle problems. Family assessment aims fully to understand different family views in an unbiased manner. It also aims to understand family values, strengths and goals. An effective family assessment also aims to build a strong relationship between family members and in engaging families and helpers in exploration of goals, values and strengths in order to create mutual respect and trust (Thomlison, 2009).

Identifying Family Data

The family to be discussed here is a nuclear family that includes a father ...

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Gender: Male Ethnicity: Caucasian

Tests Administer: Advanced Assessment Student CLINICAL INTERVIEW Reason for Referral CK is a 24 year old Caucasian male. He is the son to a close family friend and for sometime his family has raised a lot of concern about his behavior. CK has been showing difficulties in concentrating on either work of study. This has proven to be a major hurdle in his academic and vocational life. He was unable to complete his course successfully and is unable to hold down a job. Due to this, he was referred for psychological evaluation to determine his current mental status. The ...

Introduction

Family assessment ensures that information is gathered about certain families. Family assessment helps families to identify, prevent and solve problems. It helps to understand a family and identify its strengths and goals. Family assessment is a process that is ongoing for families that share the same characteristics. Relationship building is one purpose of family assessment. Building relationships in a family helps explore strengths of individuals in the family and help create respect and trust among family members. Family assessment is built on principles of strength. People are built to overcome challenges and hence helping family members identify their strengths enables creation of a ...

Introduction

For a nurse to be in a position to come up with a health care plan for a family or an individual, he/she needs to assess the current health status needs to be taken into consideration. Various considerations are made before assessing a family or an individual. Of importance is the tool to be used in acquiring the required information (Thomlison, 2010). To this end, the Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns provides a tool for acquiring a comprehensive nursing database on an individual or a family. The purpose of this paper is to assess the eleven Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns on a family and use the ...

Pediatric Case Study

Part I. Cultural and Family Assessment

Culture and family are oftentimes neglected during patient assessment, especially when the person is viewed only in terms of disease, causes and treatment. However, providing holistic care that encompasses all aspects of the patient’s life has the potential to improve patient outcomes. In nursing theory, Callista Roy and Madeleine Leininger refer to culture as a belief system, a worldview through which the patient perceives health, care, nursing and the world in general (George, 2011). It is transmitted from one generation to the next through interaction in social institutions such as the family, school and ...

Nursing: Family Assessment Case Study

What components of the Friedman Family Assessment would you complete on your first visit with this family? Explain your rationale. The first component would be to identify the family type. This is an extended family structure consisting of Jill 15, Mom 33; Mom’s boyfriend 40; two step brothers’ ages 11 and 12, younger sister is 2 years old (Minnesota Department of Health, 2006). Subsequently, the next step would be to begin an evaluation of the family.

These pertain to risk factors of each person in the household and they include assessment of stressful situations, dysfunctional behaviors, biological ...

Perez case study

According to the age-stage approach to personality, almost all people undergo a period in life, which is called midlife transition. It has been defined as the re-evaluation of various life aspects, associated with the realization of time limitation and the approaching death. The main challenge of this period is to cope with disillusions about the dreams and goals, which have never been achieved. The second question to answer for the people during midlife transition concerns the future life strategy, which often involves marriage challenges and maturing children. The result of the transition is often the decision about the future course ...

Introduction

Differential response is one of the alternative responses that have emerged as part of the child welfare larger movement. This movement strongly emphasizes on approaches that are strength based and family focused. The emergence of this alternative has been based on that there has been concern of the inability of the child maltreatment investigative response being cooperative and effective. Differential response has centrally been aimed ensuring implementation of child protection services (CPS) that can better be served through incorporation of collaborative and supportive approach, which does not involve stigma and constraints in the investigation (Hueber et al., 2009). This ...