Review of Home Health Nursing Home healthcare is a general term that represents a wide range of community-based services to support someone that is recovering from an acute situation or services needed by clients with ongoing chronic conditions. The skills and duties of home health nurses vary, but all have one thing in common and that is to make it possible for clients to remain at home and in some cases, have more independence and control. In the process, home health also provides caregivers and
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Family Assessment Stephanie Anne I. Samson NUR 405 April 28, 2016 Penny Horper Family Assessment The saying “Everything begins with family” is not merely a cliché proverb. The textbook definition of a family is “two or more individuals who depend on one another for emotional, physical, and/or financial support” (Stanhope & Landcaster, 2014, p. 601). For health care providers, collaborations with families are significant partnerships in promoting healthy individual lifestyles
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Heritage Assessment Health Tradition and Cultural Comparison Sharon Nodine Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V March 20, 2016 “A growing realization that the United States is not a ‘melting pot’ in which immigrants assimilate into the mainstream culture, but a country of many cultures has led to a growing appreciation of different ethno-cultural groups” (EuroMed Info, n.d.). The Heritage Tool and it’s five competencies is designed to provide a framework for nurses to gain insight
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Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Deanna Ziegler Grand Canyon University 9/8/2013 Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) | Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: | Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: | School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: | Pattern of Health Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic for each age group.
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Family Assessment Casey Schuler Bemidji State University Family Description The family discussed in this paper is a blended family. Included is a stepfather (SK), age 50, a mother (LS), age 48, and three children (TS, MS, LS), whose ages are 26, 21 and 18 respectively. The mother is the biological parent of all three children from a previous marriage which ended in divorce from alcoholism in her spouse. The spouse and biological father (GS) has a distant relationship with the children and does
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THE HERITAGE ASSESSMENT OF HISPANIC, ASIAN AND The Heritage Assessment of Hispanic, Asian and African American Families B.Cohran Grand Canyon University The Heritage Assessment of Hispanic, Asian and African American Families The Heritage Assessment Tool (HST) is used to “investigate a given patient’s or your own ethnic, cultural, and religious heritage…it can help determine how deeply a given person identifies with a particular tradition”. (prenhall.com). This assessment of 29 questions
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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY “An important consideration, therefore, in appraisal of health promotion and disease prevention is family assessment.” (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) It is important to do family health assessments to identify any potential risk factors and developmental task dysfunction. Aspects of normal family function include but are not limited healths promoting behaviors, fulfilling developmental tasks, value systems, and effective health practices. Assessing
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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 Assessment Casey Schuler Bemidji State University Family Description The family discussed in this paper is a blended family. Included is a stepfather (SK), age 50, a mother (LS), age 48, and three children (TS, MS, LS), whose ages are 26, 21 and 18 respectively. The mother is the biological parent of all three children from a previous marriage which ended in divorce from alcoholism in her spouse. The spouse and biological father (GS) has a distant relationship with the children and does
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Children’s Functional Health Pattern Assessment Functional Health Pattern Assessment (FHP) | Toddler Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Autonomy vs. Shame/Doubt (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | Preschool-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Initiative vs. Guilt (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | School-Aged Erickson’s Developmental Stage: Industry vs. Inferiority (Edelman & Mandle, 2010) | Perception and Health Management: List two normal assessment findings that would be characteristic
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