Family Assessment Bryan Smith Tulane University Abstract The Gordon’s 11 Functional Health Patterns provides an efficient and well organized mechanism in order to collect data from an individual and all of their life processes (Edelman & Mantle, 2006, pg. 131). With the Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns, it provides the foundation of the nurse’s assessment. “The assessment is a systematic technique for learning as much as possible about the individual”, and the main purpose in collecting
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Family Health Assessment Family health and wellness can be influenced by many factors such as society, culture, religion, and family members. Somehow, society, culture, religion and families are connected to each other. To understand an individual, it’s important to understand the family system of an individual. Health practices, whether effective or ineffective, are activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease (Edelman, 2010). A family health assessment
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REMEMBER: You should not use the web page copyright date as a “publication date” - you will use the term “n.d.” if no publication date for the article/publication is listed. How to document a Lecture: The health assessment of infants [Lecture 1]. (2012). In Health assessment. Retrieved from Grand Canyon University website: https://lc-ugrad1.gcu.edu/learningPlatform/ How to document an article from a Journal: Graves, S. & Larkin, E. (2006). Lessons from Erikson: A look at autonomy across
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NURSING CASE STUDY TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS WITH NEUROPATHY, CAP, NEUROGENIC BLADDER I. HEALTH HISTORY A. DEMOGRAPHIC DATA 1. Client’s name or initial (optional): J. L. 2. Gender: Female 3. Age, Birthdate and Birthplace: 81 years old 10/20/1932 San Clemente, Tarlac 4. Marital Status: Widowed 5. Race and Nationality: Filipino 6. Religion: Catholic 7. Address, Tel No., E-mail address: Blk. 31 Lot 42 Ph D Windward
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Cyclical – continuous and promotes improvement of nursing care * Systematic problem - solving approach toward giving individualized nursing care. STEPS: * Assessment * Nursing Diagnosis * Planning and outcome identification * Intervention * Evaluation * ASSESSING PATIENT’S HEALTH STATUS Assessment * A systematic collection of subjective and objective data with the goal of making a clinical nursing judgment about an individual, family or community. *
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Health and Illness Nursing practice is directed and guided by an understanding of the definition of health and the factors that impact a client’s health framework. Health-complete state of physical, mental and social well being w/o merely an absence of dse. -it is ever changing-. Portray of health and illness on an interactive continuum with multiple configurations ranging from high level wellness- extremely poor health Man- is a living system, with
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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT Family Health Assessment Revathy V. Anderson NRS 429V Grand Canyon University Instructor: Cherryl Llanos March 15, 2012 Family Health Assessment Family health assessment helps to collect information on different aspects of life of a family and recognizes the risk factors before it progresses into a complication. Gordon’s 11 functional health models “is a tool used in collection and organization of health data
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experienced by observing and talking to staff in areas that the individual received care. As surveyors follow the course of a patient’s treatment, they assess the health care organization’s compliance with Joint Commission standards. They conduct this compliance assessment as they review the organization’s systems for delivering safe, quality health care. ("Tracer Facts," 2012, para. 1) For this assignment I have reviewed the tracer patient summary information and there are several outstanding patient
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has recently increased in frequency and intensity. An ER visit was necessitated by a recent incident of this behavior. Some of Johnny's more intense characteristics related to autism spectrum disorders include repetitive and ritualistic behavior patterns and an apparent need to collect and acquire a variety of specific tangible items such as Hot Wheels cars and Legos. Johnny is generally only “well behaved” when access to these items is free and frequent. Introduction In this behavior intervention
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Phenomenological Community Phenomenological Community of the People of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Shannyn Lincoln, Alice Dodoo Raji, Bayo Olaoye, and Andrea Pilkay Grand Canyon University: NRS-427V Concepts in Community and Public Health May 18, 2012 Phenomenological Community of the People of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma The phenomenological community of the people of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma is a community rich in culture and tradition that has been passed
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