The Health Assessment of a Jamaican’s Family
As for health care providers, family health assessment is very important to help gathering complete data about a family, so in result, it will help nurses to formulate an appropriate care of plan that is best fit this family. In fact, every family has their own health beliefs and values. Gordon 's 11 functional health patterns is an analytic framework based on types of functional health patterns. More so, these functional health patterns view the family as a whole being using interrelated behavioral areas. Each of the 11 patterns serves as a useful tool to collect and organize assessment data and to create a structure for validation and communication among the health care providers (Eldeman, et al., …show more content…
As for the wife, she is 45 years old and has been a nurse for more than 15 years. Together, they have two sons: a 21 years old and a 16 years old. By using three open-ended questions of each of Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns, which listed as health perception and values, nutrition, sleep and rest, elimination, activity and exercise, cognitive, sensory-perception, self-perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping, the assessment begins on this …show more content…
As far as their cognitive status, they considers themselves to be very knowledgeable. More so, they stated by having a nurse in the family helps them understanding a lot about their current health. During the interview, the husband identified to be very knowledgeable about his disease process by verbalizing multiple good facts on how to manage his hypertension. Furthermore, they stated they all have good memory and they can remember stuffs from birth till now. In the sensory pattern, the data collection is focused on the use of sensory functions. Every year, they all go to their eye doctor to check their vision, which it always reveals to them to have good vision, and their hearing ability has not been compromised. Driving at night has not been a problem for this family. When receiving instructions, they all prefer to read the learning concepts
As for health care providers, family health assessment is very important to help gathering complete data about a family, so in result, it will help nurses to formulate an appropriate care of plan that is best fit this family. In fact, every family has their own health beliefs and values. Gordon 's 11 functional health patterns is an analytic framework based on types of functional health patterns. More so, these functional health patterns view the family as a whole being using interrelated behavioral areas. Each of the 11 patterns serves as a useful tool to collect and organize assessment data and to create a structure for validation and communication among the health care providers (Eldeman, et al., …show more content…
As for the wife, she is 45 years old and has been a nurse for more than 15 years. Together, they have two sons: a 21 years old and a 16 years old. By using three open-ended questions of each of Gordon’s 11 functional health patterns, which listed as health perception and values, nutrition, sleep and rest, elimination, activity and exercise, cognitive, sensory-perception, self-perception, role relationship, sexuality, and coping, the assessment begins on this …show more content…
As far as their cognitive status, they considers themselves to be very knowledgeable. More so, they stated by having a nurse in the family helps them understanding a lot about their current health. During the interview, the husband identified to be very knowledgeable about his disease process by verbalizing multiple good facts on how to manage his hypertension. Furthermore, they stated they all have good memory and they can remember stuffs from birth till now. In the sensory pattern, the data collection is focused on the use of sensory functions. Every year, they all go to their eye doctor to check their vision, which it always reveals to them to have good vision, and their hearing ability has not been compromised. Driving at night has not been a problem for this family. When receiving instructions, they all prefer to read the learning concepts