Choose a family in your community, 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 achieved the task of this and previous developmental stages?
- Any family history of genetic predisposition to a 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 made in the family?
- Is there evidence of violence within the family? What forms of discipline are used?
- 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?
Identify 3 nursing diagnosis and develop a short plan of care using the nursing process.
