Assignment: Family Assessment
I. Choose a family in your community (Florida-Miami) and conduct a family health assessment addressing the 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?
II. Identify 3 nursing diagnosis and develop a short plan of care using the nursing process.
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