Aim: the aim of this assignment is to apply evidence based nursing care to the assessment of a family. when an infant , young child or adolescent experience a health or social issues the issue can impact on all family members. Nurses working in acute care and community settings need to understand the functioning of the family unit so they can care for and assist the whole family. there are several family assessment tools that may be used bu nurses to perform family assessment and its important to understand the strengths and limitations of any family assessment tool you use in clinical practise
Address the following tasks
Task 1 Describe the features of family assessment and explain why it is important to undertake a family assessment
Task 2 :select one of the assessment tools we have explored and identify the strengths and limitations of the chosen family assessment includes a diagram to illustrate the family you may include this as an appendix
Task 3 : identify two issues for the family in the case study you have selected using appropriate research , discuss what is known about each of these issues and provide a nursing goal to address each issue.