Family Assessment

2. It is also important for parents establish a routine of physical fitness into the child’s life. You could go for walk, go hiking, bike riding, or got them involved in sports at your local YMCA. If physical activity is not a part of the family’s life, it may be difficult for the child to pick up these habits and could be just an ongoing issue that gets passed on through generations.

My personal goal for my family I would like to spend sometime with my children my goals for my family is to keep them healthy physical and emotionally. I would like my husband and my children to be physically active. “Adult should participate in at least 30minutes,and children at least 60 minutes of moderate exercise (such as brisk walking )for five or more days each week.”(http ://www.everybodywalk.org). There are numerous benefits of walking and exercising. Therefore I will make it a point that all of us get at least half hour walk or some kind of exercise daily. “There’s

The Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM) is a recognized intervention model in nursing which complements the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM). The CFIM is not a list of interventions, but strategies to determine the effectiveness of the nursing interventions offered to families. The CFIM focuses on the strengths and resilience of families and promotes effective family function over three domains: cognitive, affective and behavioural. (Wright & Leahey, 2013). When a change occurs to a family member, it not only affects one person, but all family members and interventions geared towards families can have positive holistic benefits.

work with individual families and with families as an aggregate within the population (Clark, 2003). Several areas will be presented such as biophysical, psychological, physical environmental, sociocultural, behavioral and health system considerations. The data obtained during family health assessment enable the nurse to make informed decisions about the health care needs of families (Clark).

A family health assessment is a process by which a nurse evaluates and describes the health status of a given family. It is a framework that helps to identify areas of potential risk for illness, opportunities for health education and actions needed to address these (World Health Organization, 2001). Specifics covered in a nurse led family assessment will include family history, perceptions about health, reports, health records, and any clinic test results. The nurse conducts an interview, compiles data and performs an appropriate

Family health assessment is an integral part of the formula used in creating a customized plan of care for the families’ health care. Family health assessment is also a tool that can be used to identify and evaluate the family’s health concerns, their life style and also helping families make good decisions regarding their family’s health. Family’s perception towards health and health promotion could be very different and unique, which makes the Family health assessment even more challenging for the nurses and health care professionals. Nurse’s have a moral obligation towards the society to help them promote their families health. The

While reading The Family Crucible, the authors made it feel like I was watching a life-time television series. There were several high points and low points during the family therapy session that left me unsure of how the show would end. This book takes you on a journey using family counseling to help a family heal and communicate better with one another. I thought it was interesting how this systematic therapy took place in a time where therapy was looked at as taboo. Many times in that era family therapy was not an option. The main focus was on the family member with the issue and not on the parents or other family members. In the book the authors used different theories and approaches during the counseling sessions which were quite interesting. This process after time enabled the family to look at the journey they were on in order to understand how the family, as a whole, should function.

Activity and exercise assessment is focused on the activities of ADL’s, exercise and leisure activities (Kriegler & Harton, 1992). Activities and exercise is limited in this family due to the parents work schedule. The father runs and exercises both at home and at the YMCA when time allows, which is a few times a week. The grandmothers mobility is limited due to balance issues, although she is participating in physical therapy at the present time for strengthening. They don’t feel they exercise enough although they know how important it is for them to exercise especially with their diabetes. Normal ADL 's are a minor problem for the grandmother although the grandfather helps her. The parents function at a high level with every day activities.

The Lazar family resides in Whittier California. This is a two parent family in which 42-year-old Steve (S) is the

Different assessment examines different features of an individual, or similar assessments examine similar features in different ways. Three assessments that regard family conditions and that are considered important are, the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales (FACES III), the Family Assessment Device (FAD), and the Self-report Family Inventory (SFI).

Using Gordon’s functional health patterns to assess a family will guide the nurse in developing a comprehensive nursing assessment that is holistic in nature. Gordon’s functional health patterns are founded on 11 principles that are incorporated within the nursing practice. These 11 principles serve as a framework for a thorough nursing assessment in which to build a holistic and individual family care plan (Grand Canyon University, 2011). The author has developed family-focused questions for each of the 11 principles and utilized these questions as a tool to assess her own family. This paper will summarize the family assessment that was performed by the author and discuss two wellness nursing diagnoses that

Is an excellent tool for any medical professional to be able to obtain the necessary information needed to assess the family function including parenting, household makeup, social and emotional, risk factors, history. This tool gives the best picture of the patient and their family. As an Rn in a Stroke unit I find this a valuable tool to help when it comes to assessments. The tool only takes a few minutes to complete and it allows the medical staff to have a clear idea when they make their intial assessment

Reading the first few chapters of the Family Evaluation book has been an interesting experience for me. I have found several descriptions of the processes involving families to be quite accurate. The most personally applicable has been the descriptions of the functioning positions of family members, and the descriptions of the overfunctioning and underfunctioning individuals in relationships. Reading the text has given me the opportunity to “step back” and see my family from a broader perspective. It has even tied in some information where I have felt hunches, but could not put things into words for years. I hope the text goes on to elaborate on how the dynamics change in families where blending occurs due to a second marriage.

Family is so important in the society and it is a blessing from God. Healthy behaviors learn from within the family and family member’s stimulus one to each other with health promotion practices. There fore, the health behaviors are very essential in the family assessment and which notifies health-promotion and disease-prevention. Within families, members will be the first one to learn about to promoting health. Families have impact on children’s lifestyle choices. The American Academy of Pediatrics insists health providers to include families in decision-making and involving in children’s care and education ("Review of the book Committee on Hospital Care and Institute for Patient-and-Family-Centered Care," 2012, p. 8). Nurses have a significant role in families’ health progress. Complete family assessment will provide the information’s about family’s health risk factors, strength, disease prevention and promotion.

The presence of a mental health problem can have a significant impact to a family and in each of its members. An assessment of the health of a family is a vital tool in preparing a health care plan for an individual client and his/her family. The family experience, the impact, and burden of mental health problems in their roles as the immediate caregiver as well as simply by being a part as a member of the family. This paper will discuss the role of a psychiatric nursing student in the health assessment of a contracted family in the community and what did the writer learned and accomplished on these task. The names of the family were all changed so as to protect their confidentiality and anonymity.