Essay On Family Assessment

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A family assessment is a process for gathering and organizing information in ways that can help a family prevent and or solve problems. The goal is to obtain a full understanding and unbiased view of the strengths and problems. A good assessment is about relationship building, engaging families in an exploration of their strengths, values and goals to build mutual trust and respect. Then when problems do arise, this relationship can be the foundation of open communication allowing the doors to open for identification of additional supports needed to reduce or eliminate the factors causing harm. The family discussed in this paper is a traditional nuclear family. The family composition of this nuclear family unit consists of a mother (MD) age 28 and father (KD) age 26 in a monogamous marriage with four children (DD, MD, ED, and BD), whose ages are 7, 6, 5 and 18 months respectively, two dogs and a cat. The father and the mother are the children’s biological parents. Both father and mother act as the family’s head and decision makers. The father KD is employed full time as a farm hand and is a business owner who operates a business called “The Flea Market”. His primary role for the business is acquisition and pricing of products. The mother CD is the primary breadwinner for the family as she is employed as a CMA full time. CD works the business part time and her primary role in the business is customer relations, marketing, and bookkeeping. The children are all about a year apart and have close ties due to their short age differences. The oldest son DD takes responsibility for the baby of the family BD quite often and is often noted to be helping him to the table or with his chore when no one is paying attention. The... ... middle of paper ... .... Nursing Diagnosis: Application to Clinical Practice. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Center for Disease control and Prevention. (2014, July 7). Nutrition. Retrieved from Center for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.bam.gov/sub_foodnutrition/index.html Free Nursing Care Plans based on Diagnosis. (2009, February 01). Retrieved from Nursing Concept: http://nursing-concept.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-nursing-care-plans-based-on.html Nemours Foundation The. (2014). Kids Health. Retrieved from kidsHealth.org: http://kidshealth.org/ RNCentral.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from RN Central: http://www.rncentral.com/nursing-library/careplans/fp Stanhope, M. (2014). Foundations of Nursing in the Community. Saint Louis: Mosby. Wright, L. M., & Leahey, M. (2009). Nurse and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F. A. Davis Company.

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