Heritage Assessment Culture and Cultural Competency in Health Promotion

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My Family Health Assessment Paper
The author of this paper interviewed a family using Gordon’s eleven Functional Health Patterns: Health Perception/ Health Management; Nutrition; Elimination; Activity/Exercise; Sleep/Rest; Sexuality-Reproductive; Cognitive-Perceptual; Role-Relationship; Self Perception/ Self Concept; Coping- Stress Tolerance and Values-Beliefs.
By using these Gordon’s eleven Functional Health Patterns the nurse can better assess the family health status and help create a comprehensive nursing assessment of the family (Kriegler & Harton, 1992). The completed family assessment on the Roncal family using the 11 functional health patterns created by Gordon. The Roncal family consist of 4 members, the husband name Gerry, the wife name Merly and their two children age 11 and 15 Joy and John. The family were asked questions from each category of the functional health patterns, findings will be briefly discuss in this paper. Health Perception and Health Management are focus on the individual’s perception of their health beliefs and values (Edelman, 2010). Based on the interview, the Roncal family seemed to be very health conscious maintaining their current health by annual checkups, immunization for the kids and eating healthy. Eating healthy is a main focus in this family because Mrs. Roncal’s mother died of Diabetes complications and Mrs. Roncal developed Gestational Diabetes when she was pregnant with the second child eleven years ago. Her blood sugar is always on the high normal side since she gave birth to her daughter. Mr. Roncal was recently diagnosed with Valley Fever (Coccidiomycosis) and treated with Diflucan 400 mg by mouth daily. Initially, Mr. Roncal was self-managing his wound care at home using home remedies by using boiled guava leaves alternate with warm/salt water to rinse the wound and apply triple antibiotic ointment and cover it

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