The eleven categories consist of health perception and management, nutritional/metabolic needs, elimination patterns, activity-exercise patterns, sleep-rest patterns, cognitive-perceptual patterns, self –perception, roles & relationships, sexuality, coping-stress tolerance, and values-belief patterns. (Two to three questions were gathered from each of the above listed categories to help collect valuable assessment data during the interview.) For the purpose of this research paper, the A family was interviewed using Gordon’s framework to help with the health assessment of this family. Mrs. A is a registered nurse whom is married to Mr. A with two children. Mrs. A’s children are between the ages of nine and fifteen.
He stands at about 5ft. 10in. and weighs about 315lbs. He has never consumed alcohol or smoked cigarettes in his entire life. He does admit to drinking 1 Liter of Pepsi every day for most of his working life.
Behavior Health Nursing Case Study: Schizoaffective Disorder, Bipolar Type Dominique DeMaio Gwynedd Mercy University My patient, T.B, is a 50 year old heterosexual Caucasian male. T.B is single Christian, with no children and lives alone. At the time of our introduction T.B was wearing blue jeans, a black t-shirt, and white sneakers, he had a casual appearance, and although he appeared slightly disheveled, he was smiling and seemed excited to meet me. T.B was oriented to person, place, and time, although he would not explain to me the circumstances that brought him into the hospital. The chief complaint as stated by the patient was “I think I messed up with my behavior in the neighborhood and the police brought me here.” He had a flat affect, poor judgment, impulse control, concentration, attention span, and was also lacking insight, but he was cooperative and coherent.
People die from alcohol overdoses. There has never been a fatal marijuana overdose. The official publication of the Scientific Research Society, American Scientist, reported that alcohol is one of the most toxic drugs and using just 10 times what one would use to get the desired effect could lead to death. Marijuana is one of least toxic drugs, requiring thousands of times the dose one would use to get the desired effect to lead to death. This “thousands of times” is actually theoretical, since there has never been a case of an individual dying from a marijuana overdose.
Several steps occur in the development of the NCLEX-RN Test Plan. The first step is conducting a practice analysis that is used to collect data on the current practice of the entry-level nurse (Report of Findings from the 2011 RN Practice Analysis: Linking the NCLEX-RN® Examination to Practice; NCSBN, 2012). Twelve thousand newly licensed registered nurses are asked about the frequency and importance of performing 141 nursing care activities. Nursing care activities are then analyzed in relation to the frequency of performance, impact on maintaining client safety, and client care settings where the activities are performed. This analysis guides the development of a framework for entry-level nursing practice that incorporates specific client needs as well as processes fundamental to the practice of nursing.
Kenneth Stanfield. His offense is a felony possession of a controlled substance. His sentence was two years’ probation after 90 days in jail. Mr. Stanfield comes from a divorced family but admits he had a steady home life for the most part. He is single and has never been married.
Heritage assessment offers an affirmative holistic structure for measurement and provision for racially proficient care. Health tradition evaluation form visualizes health as “the state of equilibrium inside the body, mind, and spirit, and with the family, community, and the powers of the natural world (Spector, 2004b). It helps nurses detect one’s classification with hereditary traditions. At first, nurses need to understand their own beliefs in order to respect each individual’s wishes to facilitate communication that can lead to healing process. Nurses intermingle with people from diverse branch of the world with a mixture of civilizing practices, so cultural alertness seems essential in creating a patient-nurse relationship during the interview phase of the health assessment, initial step of the nursing process.
Documenting chief nursing officer’s preference for BSN-prepared nurses []. The Journal of Nursing Administration, 31(2), 55-59. http://dx.doi.org/Retrieved from www.aacn.nche.edu/media Johnson, J. (1988). Differences in the performance of baccalaureate, associate degree and diploma nurses:A meta-analysis []. Research in Nursing and Health, 11, 183-197. http://dx.doi.org/Retrieved from www.aacn.nche.edu/media the impact of education on nursing practice.
Family Health Assessment Vann Joyner Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V May 9, 2015 Family Health Assessment One of the factors in planning care and health promotion for a patient is overall family support system . When a patient is ill it not only affects them but their family members as well. One tool used by a nurse to help collect family data is the family health assessment. Family health assessment aims at using a holistic approach to ensure the health of individuals, communities and families to ensure that care remains client centered. It focuses on ensuring that families acknowledge their health needs and address them by planning proper intervention strategies.
Family Assessment: Functional Health Patterns Pamela Obiadi Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V-O507 May 10, 2015 Family Assessment: Functional Health Patterns The selected family is the Nguyen family, who are originally from Vietnam. They came to America in 1993; and have lived in the U.S. for over 20 years. Their family consists of father, mother, two boys and two girls. Given that this family has been in the U.S. for a long time, it is interesting to evaluate their health patterns from various perspectives. This paper is aimed at summarizing the health patterns of Nguyen family and identifying wellness-nursing diagnosis based on the findings from the assessment.