Family Health Assessment and Nursing Diagnosis
Description
After you have read chapter 29 and 30 choose a family in your community and conduct a family health assessment using the following questions below.- Family composition. Type of family, age, gender and racial/ethnic composition of the family.
- Roles of each family member. Who is the leader in the family? Who is the primary provider? Is there any other provider?
- Do family members have any existing physical or psychological conditions that are affecting family function
- Home (physical condition) and external environment; living situation (this must include financial information). How the family support itself. For example; working parents, children or any other member
- How adequately have individual family members accomplished age-appropriate developmental tasks?
- Do individual family member’s developmental states create stress in the family?
- What developmental stage is the family in? How well has the family achieve the task of this and previous developmental stages?
- Any family history of genetic predisposition to disease?
- Immunization status of the family?
- Any child or adolescent experiencing problems
- Hospital admission of any family member and how it is handled by the other members?
- What are the typical modes of family communication? It is affective? Why?
- How are decisions make in the family?
- Is there evidence of violence within the family? What forms of discipline are use?
- How well the family deals with crisis?
- What cultural and religious factors influence the family health and social status?
- What are the family goals?
- Identify any external or internal sources of support that are available?
- Is there evidence of role conflict? Role overload?
- Does the family have an emergency plan to deal with family crisis, disasters?
