Friedman Family Assessment William Harrison NUR/405 July 16, 2012 Kimberly Hall Friedman Family Assessment Identifying Data • The Family name is Costa • They reside in Apple Valley CA. • The family consists of the mother and two children. The mother is forty-five years old, the son is 20, and the daughter is 18. • The family is polygamous • All members of the family identify as White • The mother and daughter attend a non-denominational church on a regular basis
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Friedman Family Assessment Wendie Land NUR/405 February 21, 2011 Beth Edwards, MSN, BC, FNP Friedman Family Assessment A nursing assessment of a family is the basis of nursing interventions. Stanhope and Lancaster (2008) state, “By using a systematic process, family problem areas are identified and family strengths are emphasized as the building blocks for interventions and to facilitate family resiliency (p. 567). The following paragraphs will describe a family that has become more typical
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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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Friedman Family Assessment May 2010 University of Phoenix NUR/405 Amy Weaver A nursing assessment of a family is the basis of nursing interventions. Stanhope and Lancaster (2008) state, “By using a systematic process, family problem areas are identified and family strengths are emphasized as the building blocks for interventions and to facilitate family resiliency (p. 567). The following paragraphs will describe a typical family. The family consists of a mother, a father, a 10 year old
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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 Case Study: The Friedman Family Assessment Model (Stanhope, Appendix E pg 1035) provides you with one example of the types of data that need to be collected to conduct a family assessment. This assessment tool is useful when the nurse is assessing the family from a public health or community-based perspective. For this written assignment you will apply the Friedman Family Assessment Model to your own family. This paper is designed to expand upon your knowledge of family as client. Upon
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Read Closing Case Three: The World is Flat – Thomas Friedman on page 33. Watch the video of Thomas Freidman’s lecture at MIT which can be found at http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/266/ Discuss the following questions: 1. Do you agree or disagree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat? Be sure to justify your answer. I agree with Friedman’s assessment that the world is flat. I concur with this assessment because economic factors have all intertwined to create the environment for flattening
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preschool programs that meet state standards. As well, as results in a Georgia State University study, indicated that preschool significantly decreases the achievement gap. Children began preschool well behind the national norms on three of four skill assessments (receptive language, cognition, letter/word recognition, and expressive language) and finished preschool well above the national norms after the program (Henry, et al, 7). This is why the government should redirect our resources to include universal
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Friedman Family Assessment of the Matthew Family Community nurses can effectively assist and care for specific families within a community by identifying the issues of the family. Identifying the issues of a family will assist the nurse in developing effective interventions that will maintain quality care and promote standard of care. The Friedman family assessment model helps the nurse to identify these issues. According to Callahan (2003), “…a family assess model…assess key areas of family
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develop a health educational plan. The purpose of this paper is to create a health education plan based upon information collected from a windshield survey and Friedman family assessment conducted by a nurse in the community of Palmdale, California. Areas that will be discussed include, a description of the educational need based upon assessment findings, educational goals and objectives, educational methods that will be used to implement the health educational plan, and the methods applied to evaluate
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