acknowledges that communication is paramount for human interaction, otherwise people cannot relate to others effectively, make their needs known and identify what is happening to them. A fundamental aspect for district nursing staff is to ensure the whole family unit is included in the communication process which is an essential part of the therapeutic relationship. The therapeutic relationship is grounded in an interpersonal process that occurs between the nurse and the client. It is a purpose, goal directed
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Calgary Assessment of the Fournier Family Danielle Fournier Elmira College Abstract Assessment, the first step in the nursing process, is a concept that must grasped in order for nurses to possess the solid foundation required to develop a plan and provide optimal care to their patients. This assessment is significant not only to individual patients, but their families, who are becoming increasingly recognized for their significance to the health and well being of individual family members
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Health assessment provides a detailed plan of care that focuses on the specific needs and the specific approach to achieve them. The process involves evaluation of health status and conducting a physical examination and the overall health history (Laymon, Shah, Leep, Elligers & Kumar, 2015). Health assessment in lifespan provides a substantive evaluation of the health of individuals across ages. The paper serves to address an assessment of the health of a child, an adult and an older adult for instance
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and practices corresponding with culture is the focal point of transcultural care. Influenced by the principles and theories of transcultural nursing, the author defines transcultural nursing as a discipline of culturally care for individuals, families, groups and communities representing different cultural lifestyle, values, habits, life process, beliefs and practices. Furthermore, the author believes that the aims of transcultural nursing are to bestow effective and excellent care to people from
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Theoretical Perspectives Holland In general, I am not a huge fan of assessments. I realize that they can be useful tools, but often struggle with the lack of diversity seen in the participants that help make up the normative sample of the assessment. I can be rigid in my thinking when it comes to this topic, so I try to remind myself to see the assessments as a guide. Prior to entering the field of mental health, I worked at an HIV/AIDS nonprofit for close to 10 years. In addition, I have volunteered
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applicable to career counseling as well. The career world is often congruent to that of the animal kingdom. There are hierarchies, competition for resources, and inevitably someone thrives and someone fails. By focusing on this corresponding model as an analogy to how one’s career may evolve over time and through various obstacles, a career counselor can help a person to focus on external issues and how to best handle them. This is contrary to the typical style of counseling which often involves
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The Hyppolite Family “The purpose of this paper is to apply the Family Systems Stressor-Strengths Inventory (FS3I) to a family and present an analysis of the finding.” For the purpose of this paper the family will been known as the Hyppolite Family. The family discussed in this paper is considered a traditional nuclear family living in a single family home. Included is a Father Andrew Hyppolite (AH) age 38, a mother Katharine (KH), age 36, and four children Zoë , Timothy, Sarah, and Scott, whose
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Assignment 6.1: Project, Assessment Model MBA 531: Telemedicine and Emerging Technologies The article spoke about the importance of economic assessments of health care technologies to help of decision-making concerning the allocation of public resources. Health care services are often influenced by external factors, and both competition and information are imperfect in the health care market. Explained which four main methods of economic technology assessment are: cost analysis, cost-benefit
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After viewing several spiritual assessment models, the FICA model best suited the present situation. This model uses a simple approach, however, it offers and in-depth spiritual assessment. This allows the nurse to easily identify area of concern, or quickly determine barriers. The patient assessed is a forty-two year old male. He was diagnosed with Hepatitis C three years ago and has gone through treatments that, at times, were severely debilitating. He has gone through two
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Quality, discusses different nursing assessment tools and methods to improve functional ability in the elderly hospitalized client. It stated, “The hospital environment, a tertiary care setting, has traditionally focused on medically managing illness states, not on improving patient functioning.” (Kleinpell RM, Fletcher K, Jennings BM, 2008). One key assessment tool when caring for the elderly hospitalized patient would be a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). When interviewing and assessing
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