Nursing is a holistic, broad-based career that focuses on caring and promoting good health. I believe that nursing is scholarly practice which involves various aspects in order for individuals to reach their highest health status. In addition, nursing does not only stop at treating a single client but as I stated earlier it is a broad-based career, there for it reaches various aspects, such as family and communities. It is important to reach all the aspects of nursing to ensure the best practice that every individual deserves. Literature Review One of the aspects of nursing is the community and an individual’s family.
Friedman’s model views family as a subsystem of society and enables nurses to assess the family system as a whole, as a component of society, and as an interactional system (Stanhope & Lancaster, 20012). In this essay, the participating family, M family, was assessed with using the Friedman Family Assessment Model and given priority nursing diagnoses along with community health nursing interventions to influence the issues positively and effectively. Taking into consideration the impact of family structure, roles, and values, the effects of Watson’s theory of human caring on community health nursing is portrayed overcoming these factors and eventually achieve wellness and health for family, community, and all. The Friedman Family Assessment tool contains collection of family data in different areas such as identifying data, developmental stage and history of family, environmental data, family structure, family functions, and family stress and coping (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). In summary of the M family, this is a two-parent family in which 60 year-old RM is the father and retired nurse, and his wife MM is 59 years of age and currently still working as a nurse.
Skills in how to communicate effectively with both the pediatric patient and their parents are important for a nurse to foster to maintain good therapeutic relationships. Person centred care becomes family centred care when babies and children are the patients. The dependent nature of the patient increases the need for parental responsibility and advocacy for the child. It is important for all members of the family to be taken into account when nursing a pediatric patient, especially the primary caregivers and siblings. Chochinov, 2007 (cited in Cornwell & Goodrich, 2009), states simply that compassion is ‘a deep awareness of the suffering of another coupled with the wish to relieve it.’ Pediatric patients and their families are highly sensitive to the compassionate nature of health care professionals and a successful therapeutic relationship with them depends on the sensitive, compassionate care offered by the nurse.
This assignment will focus on development and awareness of the legal, ethical and professional issues associated with accountability in health care. The theme identified is record keeping. According to NMC, (2009), ‘record keeping is essential part of Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health professionals’ practice and is necessary to the provision of safe and effective care. Records include anything that makes reference to the care of patient and any record can be called as evidence. NMC, (2009), states that, ‘ good record keeping helps to improve accountability and shows how decisions related to patient care were made’ and the courts of law approach to record keeping tends to be that, “if it is not recorded, it has not been done”.
To optimize patient and family outcomes during resuscitation, nurses who are confident of their abilities in managing family presence can be assigned to code teams, rapid response teams, and family care during resuscitations. In the same way, nurses who favor family presence and are confident of their ability to manage the practice may act as role models for novice nurses, mentor experienced nurses, teach family presence at the bedside, serve on code teams, and lead change in units that do not practice family presence during resuscitation. (p. 109) Ultimately, much more work is needed in regards to family presence during resuscitation efforts. As the study showed, nurses are all doing something different based on the level of self confidence they demonstrate. Research, with the institution of policies and procedures will be key factors in the advancement of family presence during resuscitation efforts.
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 Centered Care Interview and Assessment Kari Anderson University of Saskatchewan Family Centered Care Interview and Assessment Nursing is continually evolving to create holistic care that addresses physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs. As nursing research advances, there has been an emergence of literature addressing the significance of incorporating the practice of family centered care. Through theory, practice and research, evidence has shown that families have a significant impact on the health and well being of individual family members (Wright & Leahey, 2009). Dalziell (2011) suggested that improvement in the provision of family centered care must be understood as a process, as it involves the changing of culture, rather than just the implementation of structures. Dalziell also suggested that individual nurses need to be proactive by interviewing patients about their families and then implementing changes in their practice to include their family in care.
The importance goes further to the core of the problem focusing on the nurse and evaluating what is needed to be done in order to educate this patient group. The research problem involves nurses who are not comfortable discussing end-of-life issues with their patients and is identified in the first few paragraphs of the article. This is a significant problem nurses and doctors can educate, manage and monitor for these chronic patients. The purpose is not clearly stated in the study, but is inferred within the abstract of the article as well. Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today.
Communication during End of Life Care Among the many, facing end of life is one of most difficult challenges for patients and their families . Regardless of the circumstances, health care professionals have the ability to assist and ensure this period of time is one of which that reflects the needs and wishes of both the patient and family . Communication during end of life has not only been identified as a vital component of care, but has also shown to be beneficial to patients, their family members and health care professionals . This paper will further examine the importance and benefits of communication during end of life care, and discuss the barriers that prevent nurses from implementing it in practice today . Specifically, this paper will focus on barrier such as lack of education and exposure, Possible implications and interventions to reduce and eliminate these barriers will also be discussed .
Pseudonyms will be used in accordance with The Nursing and Midwifery council (NMC, 2008) to protect confidentiality. I will reflect back on both my learning disability and maternity placements to highlight what could have been done better. Reflection is important in life and we reflect everyday however in nursing it is a vital skill that helps practitioners think through experiences in the hope of bettering their understanding of the situation (Hood, 2007). The Department of Health (DH, 2000) defines a vulnerable adult as a person aged 18 or over who may need services provided in the community due to a disability, illness or age. These people may not be able to protect themselves from significant harm therefore it is the duty of health care professionals to provide the best care to protect the individual from harm.