Focus on the Family

1) The Soto/ Torres family have two children who have encountered problems with the law. Margareta and her husband has financial problems due to earnings at work. The family live in a high crime neighborhood. They experience transportation problems and have limited access resources and services. They have not had previous success with people helping them and are reluctant to seek help now. Laura the HS professional’s actions with this family would build a relationship with them that they have…

narratives of events. In some cases, individual family members have undergone little or, conversely, extensive therapy, resulting in a perspective that cements what may be an individual perspective, leaving out the multiple and diverse perspectives of other family members. In these cases, bringing family members together can create a shared view allowing for a collective narrative to be reached; an important piece of the recovery process. When a family without support tries to make sense of…

Family Healthcare Practice The current healthcare sector is characterized by escalating patient acuity and workload. In nursing practice, the backbone of this sector, students face several challenges while transitioning from learning institutions to the dynamic and, practical clinical practice. This paper is a reflection of personal transition in regards to the models, role stress and difference between family nursing practice and medical doctor. My Models of Transition in nursing Considering…

making enough income to stay in college should be my goal. Receiving scholarships to begin my journey toward becoming a computer engineer is what I worry about the most. I have realized at a young age that the only way to become successful and make my family proud is to graduate college unscathed from becoming a stereotype or a negative statistic. Many young African-American women in this generation do not graduate from college and even a smaller number continue to pursue their careers. I would…

aligned with my personal interests and natural talents. In December of 2005 I graduated with my Bachelor of Social Work degree. I was hired on with the Army Reserve Center and began helping families of deployed soldiers. This was an easy and rewarding position as I could relate to the struggles that these families were facing. My husband was currently serving his second tour in Afghanistan. After taking some time to study and prepare I took my licensure exam and passed. My next position…

to find preceptors and providers willing to work in underserved populations and gain valuable experience working with marginalized populations. In Bemidji Minnesota, the CNS or DNP as the preceptor for underserved populations remains a plausible focus. This will require the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialists (NACNS) to champion the role of the CNS in credentialing bodies, DNP schools of nursing to create curriculum changes to include 75 hours of clinical service to underserved…

life”(Mills 1909-14). What he is saying is that bliss should not be our main focus or purpose in life instead focus on things that make you happy. Another person who I agree with is Bern's from “My Philosophy on Happiness” (Berns 2013). Mills also says “ Surround yourself with people you want to be around. This is basically what I think the key to happiness is. Mills has many valid points because being joyful is about being with family and people you love. In the “My Philosophy on Happiness”…

Using the family strengths framework for assessment in nursing will be explored in this essay. Concepts covered will include defining family in contemporary Australian society, the family strengths framework and how the framework can be applied to practice as a nurse. Wright and Leahey (cited in Barnes & Rowe 2011, p. 5) declared ‘the family is who they say they are’, but defining family for discussion in nursing is much more complex. Defining family in contemporary society can be challenging…

My family research project will focus on the fourth wave of migration and the identity of American immigrants especially Muslim immigrants. There are several questions that I will focus on in my family research projects such as what economical or social condition motivated for people to migrate to the US after 1965 and how it is different from the previous waves of immigration, but the main question that I will focus on is how to recent Muslim immigrants identity themselves socially and…

modern generation are given complete freedom to decide on when to get married and start a family. Also, society’s focus had shifted from group focus to more on individuality; the modern generation has shown to have a greater self-esteem and sense of individuality. With all these great changes, many observers have been alarmed by a negative pattern - the new generation that has been fed with the idea of self-focus since birth has become self-absorbed…