Family Health Assessment Paper: Gordon's 11 Functional Health Patterns Family Health Assessment: Gordon's Functional Health Patterns Marjorie Gordon proposed functional health patterns as a guide for establishing a comprehensive nursing data base (Koshar, 2013). Gordon created the data collection tool that would enable a nurse to assess the family and determine aspects of health and function is a systematic and standardized approach. As a nurse this tool is essential to adequately organize and evaluate a care plan for patients and their family. The Family Interview Results The family chosen for this assignment consists of a couple that has been married for 13 years and their two school age daughters. The adults are both in their mid-thirties, the family lives in their own home in the Tampa bay suburbs, the couple works outside of the home to provide for their family.
Nurses are given assignments based on the number of staff present and not on the acuity of the patient therefore affecting the patient’s outcome. A co-worker of mine was given an assignment with seven patient including a fresh post op. Sorry to say that patient was found dead from internal bleeding because the nurse was overwhelmed with her assignment did not do a proper assessment. She was taken off the floor and given other duties while the case is being reviewed. And after a year she took early retirement.
I had not planned on completing my observation when I did, but I got the feeling I was in the right place at the right time. My five-year-old daughter had been sick with a stuffy nose, coughing, and a fever so I called the doctor’s office for an appointment. The receptionist told me they were all booked up but to bring my daughter and she could be a work-in to see a doctor when one was available. My daughter and I arrived at her doctor’s office around 10:30am on Thursday, November 14, 2013. I signed her in at the desk and we took a seat in the waiting room between two tables with magazines.
Hospice Organization Lisa Harris SS368 December 11, 2012 Douglas McCoy Hospice Organization I Interviewed After careful thought and consideration of all the organization that I could interview for this assignment and given what is going on in my personal life with my mom’s current health I chose to interview someone from Faith Hospice of Oklahoma. About the Interviewee I interviewed Charlene Killgore she is the Volunteer Coordinator of Faith Hospice of Oklahoma, she handles the Norman and Oklahoma City location. Due to time constraints for both of us we were not able to meet in person, so our conversation took place over the phone it really turned out to be a phone conversation where I asked the first question about what she
Leave of Absence/FMLA One day I got the call that my mother-in-law had just passed away from cancer. The first thing that went through my mind was that my wife didn’t have enough leave on books to be able to go home and grieve with her family. Leave of Absence, is the time an employee must be away from their workplace without chance of losing their job because of that absence. Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides an employee up to 12 weeks unpaid leave, but with job protection, in order to deal with issues such as the one my wife was going through. She decided to take advantage of the FMLA and was able to spend that precious time with family during those adverse times which allowed her to focus her mind on the family and not stress about her job at all.
At 47, I have become a mother….again. In the year 2005, my mother had been living with us for about a year and a half, having Alzheimer disease, it was getting harder to control her at home. She was wandering around at night, fallen a couple of times, gotten into her medications and overdosed. I felt for her safety and my peace of mind it would be better to put her in a nursing home. 2 months later, she passed away.
I was around 3 months pregnant when I had skipped a couple days of aspirin due to money difficulties. I started to spot and panicked as I rushed to the hospital, they said everything looked fine. I was very worried and I told them, “ last time I saw a doctor while bleeding, he told me everything was fine and than a minute later I lost it! So do not tell me everything is fine!” The doctor kept saying there is nothing more to do than just wait. I explained the blood issue, and still was sent home.
The morning of May 27, 2004, my mother arrived at North Shore University Hospital because she was having contractions. After six hours, the doctor sent her home because she was only dilated two centimeters. The doctor instructed her to walk to help get the baby to crown. She spent much of her day following the doctor’s orders. Later that night, she returned to
Thats the day I considered working in the health field. The nurse practitioner came in and look at me asking who I was, after explaining my relationship to the patient, my grandmother, she looked at me and ask did you know your grandmother has cancer? I was at lost for words because the way she said it, my grandmother had known for a while that she had ovarian cancer and was trying to keep it a secret. I guess she expected us to just wake up one
My mother has been a nurse for many years; vividly observing her work made me realize that I wanted to pursue something similar. Although my mom played a great role in the realization of my dreams, my grandfather is the one who most significantly impacted my decision to choose nursing as my focus. By the time I was in high school, I was in California and my grandfather was diagnosed with cancer. I was told that he was alone most of the time in the hospital, because the rest of the family was working and could not visit. I decided to miss a week of school and flew to New York to take care of him.