African American Family Assessment
Family Health Assessment Ancy Jacob Grand Canyon University December13, 2014
Family assessment is an important device to analyze and to help a family regain their health status prominently. By interviewing them, a nurse could get a holistic view on determining the family’s currant health status, behavior, and their way/ quality of life. For this Assessment, an African American family would be chosen to interview, and the questionnaire created would help determine their family health.
The family selected for this assessment is African American who have been living in New York for a very long time. They father is 48 and the mother is 47 married for almost 20 years, and they have not been divorced. …show more content…
Their bowel and bladder movements are normal, and there is no evidence of constipation or diarrhea, that affects their daily habits. They have no pain in their bowel movements, or any sign and symptoms of hemorrhoids, or any urinary tract infection. No one in the family takes laxatives either.
The family gets enough sleep during night time. Apart from the kids, who might stay up late to finish college work, or schoolwork, the parents usually get at least eight hours of sleep. Both the wife and husband has work at seven, and so they go to sleep, soon after they eat dinner. The husband sometimes, due to overweight issues, has sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is when the breathing pattern momentarily stops while sleeping, and it usually occurs to people who are overweight. Due to this, the wife sometimes, does not get enough rest, and at times stays alerted. But nobody in the family takes sleeping …show more content…
Does anybody in the family has sleeping problem like sleep apnea and using assistive devise for sleep?
Elimination:
1. Any changes in the bowel and bladder pattern recently, like constipation, diarrhea which affects the daily activates?
2. Describes any pain while bowel movement, any history of hemorrhoids, or urinary tract infection.
3. Anybody in the family take laxatives?
Activity /Exercise:
1. Does your families has a regular exercise program, what is their concept about exercise and activity?
2. How you spend your spare time?
3. Does families involves in the social activities?
Cognitive:
1. Does anyone in the family has any problem with understanding the surrounds?
2. Any problem with learning and adaptation?
3. How does the family’s ability to learn, remember and problem solving depend on the situation?
Self- Perception:
1. How you and your family members thinks about their personality?
2. Does anybody has feeling that they lost hope in their life?
3. How they are thinking about their ability to manage their role at home and work?
Role Relationship:
1. Does the family members perform their role, they supposed to do?
2. How is the relationship between other members of the family?
3. Does each member in the family support each
Family assessment is an important device to analyze and to help a family regain their health status prominently. By interviewing them, a nurse could get a holistic view on determining the family’s currant health status, behavior, and their way/ quality of life. For this Assessment, an African American family would be chosen to interview, and the questionnaire created would help determine their family health.
The family selected for this assessment is African American who have been living in New York for a very long time. They father is 48 and the mother is 47 married for almost 20 years, and they have not been divorced. …show more content…
Their bowel and bladder movements are normal, and there is no evidence of constipation or diarrhea, that affects their daily habits. They have no pain in their bowel movements, or any sign and symptoms of hemorrhoids, or any urinary tract infection. No one in the family takes laxatives either.
The family gets enough sleep during night time. Apart from the kids, who might stay up late to finish college work, or schoolwork, the parents usually get at least eight hours of sleep. Both the wife and husband has work at seven, and so they go to sleep, soon after they eat dinner. The husband sometimes, due to overweight issues, has sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is when the breathing pattern momentarily stops while sleeping, and it usually occurs to people who are overweight. Due to this, the wife sometimes, does not get enough rest, and at times stays alerted. But nobody in the family takes sleeping …show more content…
Does anybody in the family has sleeping problem like sleep apnea and using assistive devise for sleep?
Elimination:
1. Any changes in the bowel and bladder pattern recently, like constipation, diarrhea which affects the daily activates?
2. Describes any pain while bowel movement, any history of hemorrhoids, or urinary tract infection.
3. Anybody in the family take laxatives?
Activity /Exercise:
1. Does your families has a regular exercise program, what is their concept about exercise and activity?
2. How you spend your spare time?
3. Does families involves in the social activities?
Cognitive:
1. Does anyone in the family has any problem with understanding the surrounds?
2. Any problem with learning and adaptation?
3. How does the family’s ability to learn, remember and problem solving depend on the situation?
Self- Perception:
1. How you and your family members thinks about their personality?
2. Does anybody has feeling that they lost hope in their life?
3. How they are thinking about their ability to manage their role at home and work?
Role Relationship:
1. Does the family members perform their role, they supposed to do?
2. How is the relationship between other members of the family?
3. Does each member in the family support each