The Friedman Family Assessment is an excellent tool that can assist a nurse when assessing and establishing nursing interventions within a family. This paper will review and discuss the interactions in a family that consists of a mother, father, grandmother and son. Identifying Data The family consists of the grandmother AB, the mother IB, the father PB , one daughter LB, and three sons’ AB, IB and SB. This family lives in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The mother (IB) is 59 years
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Family Health Assessment Leslie Quiett Grand Canyon University: NS-429V June 22, 2014 Family Health Assessment Whether or not a family is the family of origin or a blended family after divorce or widowhood, it is the recognized structure by which we identify ourselves. We come together over traditions, ethnic ties, diet and exercise; sleep habits, medical history and genetic factors, educational patterns and emotional ties. How we relate to each other, whether negative of positive, defines
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Freidman Family Assessment Laura Jones August 22, 2011 Nur/405 Beth Edwards, MSN, FNP-BC Friedman Family Assessment A community health nurse cares for individuals and families through comprehensive and continuing care. The community health care nurse is not restricted to the care of one particular age group of population. The community health nurse encourages all participates to contribute in the education, promotion and maintenance of good health. According to Stanhope and Lancaster (2008)
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Family Heritage Assessment Stacey Bury, RN Grand Canyon University: Nursing 429V April 28, 2012 This paper will seek to understand 3 different cultures with utilization of the Heritage Assessment Tool. The purpose of the Heritage Asessment Tool in health promotion is to gain clarity on different cultures and their families. Increasing diversity of the United States (US) population is a reality in the 21st century. The Census 2000 indicates that one out of four persons in the US are non-Whites
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Family Health Assessment: Mohr Family Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V Family Centered Health Promotion February 28, 2016 Family Health Assessment: Mohr Family The Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns Assessment is a very useful tool in assessing and evaluating a family’s established health patterns. This enables the health care provider an inside look at the overall health of the family and assist them in setting goals for better health outcomes for the entire family. The Mohr family consists
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Family Health Assessment Name: Julie Carr Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-O105 April 5, 2014 A family health assessment is an approach used by nurses to evaluate and determine the family’s health status and to develop a plan for care for a family as a whole or individually. The purpose of this paper is to interview a family about various functional health patterns and summarize the findings. After evaluating the findings the author will develop two nursing diagnosis based off the family’s
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Families created out of second marriages often begin with high expectations. Parents hope to avoid or to fix the mistakes made in a previous marriage and to find the love or security that has been missing. Some hopes maybe little more than fantasies, but any that goes unfulfilled cause stress. In a structural-functional approach, the family is viewed as an organization arranged in a structure with a hierarchy that enables it to perform necessary functions. The family is organized into smaller parts
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Paper # 1 Family Process M Family assessment using the Friedman Family Assessment Model. Identifying Data Family Name M. Family Street Address City, State, ZIP Phone Number Human Biology Family Composition Name | Gender | Age | Relationship | Education andOccupation | Physical Health Status | Mr. M | Male | 30 years | Father | College GraduateAccountant | Good health | Mrs. M | Female | 28 years | Mother | College GraduateRegistered Nurse | Good health | Sonia | Female | 6 years
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Friedman Family Assessment The Friedman Family Assessment is a tool used to assess the “family as a whole, as part of the whole of society, and as an interaction system” (Lancaster & Stanhope, 2008, p. 569). The Friedman Family Assessment has certain assumptions for the families that are assessed with this tool. These assumptions include the families are “a social system with functional requirements, a small group possessing certain generic features common to all small groups, as a social system
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Family Health Assessment In order to provide proper care to families, one must be able to assess the patients holistically. As well as evaluating the patients physical, social, environmental, and spiritual domains (Grand Canyon University, 2011). The “ family defines health, makes decisions regarding health practices, and is the most frequent provider of health care to family members” (Nettle et al., 1993). Gordon’s eleven functional health patterns serve as a framework for clinical assessment
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