Family Assessment, Gordon 11 health patterns
The Harris Family Assessment
Dana
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V
November 16, 2013
The Harris Family Assessment
Health practices are activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease. Health practices vary from family to family and nurses play a pivotal role in promoting health for the family. Families identify and perform health-maintenance activities based on their perceptions about their health because their choices are influenced by the family’s values, beliefs, priorities, cultures and practices. Being a nurse requires an assessment of the family as a whole. A family health assessment is to evaluate and describes the health status of a given family (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The Gordon 's 11 functional health patterns help to organize basic family assessment information. These patterns consist of values/health perception, nutrition, sleep/rest, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, self perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping ("Gordon 's 11 functional," 2008). The purpose of this assignment was to interview the Harris family, summarizing the results and to develop appropriate diagnosis.
The Family Assessment
Positive Attributes
During a personal interview with John and Christine there were some positive family assessments revealed in regards to health maintenance/perception, nutritional pattern, exercise pattern, stress patterns and belief patterns. John is an overall health individual who drinks protein shakes and works out daily by jogging early in the morning. Dean, the oldest son, plays sports in middle school. Brent, who is a toddle, goes to mommy and me classes for his activity and Christine takes Brent out on bike rides daily before he has his nap. Since Christine has had a blood clot after giving birth to Brent, she has some restrictions to food, but she does the cooking for the family and they adjusted just fine to the restrictions. Their daily
Dana
Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V
November 16, 2013
The Harris Family Assessment
Health practices are activities performed by individuals or families as a whole to promote health and prevent disease. Health practices vary from family to family and nurses play a pivotal role in promoting health for the family. Families identify and perform health-maintenance activities based on their perceptions about their health because their choices are influenced by the family’s values, beliefs, priorities, cultures and practices. Being a nurse requires an assessment of the family as a whole. A family health assessment is to evaluate and describes the health status of a given family (Edelman & Mandle, 2010). The Gordon 's 11 functional health patterns help to organize basic family assessment information. These patterns consist of values/health perception, nutrition, sleep/rest, elimination, activity/exercise, cognitive, self perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping ("Gordon 's 11 functional," 2008). The purpose of this assignment was to interview the Harris family, summarizing the results and to develop appropriate diagnosis.
The Family Assessment
Positive Attributes
During a personal interview with John and Christine there were some positive family assessments revealed in regards to health maintenance/perception, nutritional pattern, exercise pattern, stress patterns and belief patterns. John is an overall health individual who drinks protein shakes and works out daily by jogging early in the morning. Dean, the oldest son, plays sports in middle school. Brent, who is a toddle, goes to mommy and me classes for his activity and Christine takes Brent out on bike rides daily before he has his nap. Since Christine has had a blood clot after giving birth to Brent, she has some restrictions to food, but she does the cooking for the family and they adjusted just fine to the restrictions. Their daily
References: Edelman & Mandle, C. (2010). Health Promotion Throughout the Life Span (7th ed). Mosby. Retrieved from http://pageburstls.elsevier.com/books/9780323056625/ Gordon 's 11 functional health patterns. (2008, Oct 07). Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/6418349/Gordons-11-Functional-Health-Patterns Weber, J. (2005). Nurses ' handbook of health assessment. (5 ed.). Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Retrieved from http://jxzy.smu.edu.cn/jkpg/UploadFiles/file/TF_06928152357_nursing diagnoses