CHN SL

Family Health Steps in Family Nursing

Assessment
Assessment
 Data Collection
Family Nursing Assessment  Data Analysis
 Formulation Of Diagnosis
➢ A deliberate and systematic process of gathering
and analyzing data to identify and continuously  WAYS OF COLLECTING DATA
validate health and nursing problems of families. ✓ Observation
➢ IS THE FIRST MAJOR PHASE OF THE ✓ Physical Examination
NURSING PROCESS. ✓ Questionnaires
✓ Records Review
Table 1.2 Assessment Data for Individuals, Families, & Communities ✓ Interview
Assessment ✓ Laboratory & Diagnostic Test
Individual Family Community
▪ Health Status ▪ Family structure, ▪ Demographic,
cultural and
Tools For Community Assessment
PRIMARY DATA COLLECTION SECONDARY DATA
▪ Knowledge, ▪ Characteristics socioeconomic
Data that have not be gathered before What is already know; taken from
attitudes and and dynamics variables & are collected by the nurse existing data sources
▪ practices (KAP) Observation Vital Registries
▪ Socioeconomic ▪ Environmental • Ocular/Windshield Survey
▪ Adaptation and cultural factors • Participant Observation
Process Pattern ▪ characteristics Survey Health Records and Reports
▪ Health and illness Informant Interview Disease Registries
▪ Lifestyle ▪ Environmental patterns Community Forum Publications
• Print & Electronic
factors
Focus Group Discussion Census Data
▪ Help-seeking ▪ Community
behavior ▪ Health status of resources
each member 1. DATA COLLECTION
▪ Utilization of ▪ Community
 Types Of Data: (Initial Data Base)
health services ▪ Values and competence
practices on  Family structure, characteristics and
health ▪ Examples: dynamics
▪ promotion/ ➢ Participation  Socio-economic and cultural characteristics
maintenance and ➢ Machinery for
disease facilitating
 Home and environment
▪ prevention interaction and  Health status of each member (family health
decision- & behavior)
▪ Competencies on making
 Values and practices on health
family health care ➢ Articulateness
➢ Conflict promotion/maintenance and disease
management prevention
Reasons for the
failure of past health I. FAMILY STRUCTURE, CHARACTERISTICS
programs AND DYNAMICS/ RELATIONAL PATTERNS
❑ Members of the household
Family Health Nursing Process ❑ Sociodemographic
❑ Type of Family Signature and Form
➢ A systematic approach of solving an existing ❑ Dominant family in terms of decision making
problem/meeting the needs of family. ❑ Family dynamics, communication patten/s,
✓ R – Rapport interaction processes and interpersonal
✓ A – Assessmen relationship
✓ P – Planning
✓ I - Intervention
✓ E - Evaluation

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II. SOCIO-ECONOMIC & CULTURAL ❑ Result of laboratory/diagnostic and other

CHARACTERISTICS screening procedures supportive of assessment
❑ Income and expenses findings.
• Occupation, place of work and income of
each working member V. VALUES, HABITS, PRACTICES ON HEALTH
• Adequacy to meet basic necessities (food, PROMOTION, MAINTENANCE, AND DISEASE
clothing, shelter) PREVENTION
• Who makes decisions about money and ❑ Examples include:
how it is spent • Immunization status of family members
❑ Educational Attainment of each member • Healthy lifestyle practices. Specify.
❑ Ethnic background and religious affiliation • Adequacy of:
❑ Family tradition, events or practices affecting ❑ Rest and sleep
member’s ❑ Exercise/activities
❑ Significant others – role(s) they play in family’s ❑ Use of protective measures
life ❑ Relaxation and other stress management
❑ Relationship of the family to larger community- activities
nature and extent of participation of the family ❑ Opportunities which enhance feelings of self-
in the community activities. worth, self-efficacy, and sense of
connectedness to self, others and a higher
III. HOME AND ENVIRONMENT power, essence of meaningfulness.
❑ Housing ❑ Use of promotive-preventive health services
• adequacy of living space and use of healthy life style-related services.
• Sleeping arrangement
• Presence of breeding or resting sites of
vectors of diseases
• Presence of accident and fire hazards
• Food storage and cooking facilities
• f. Water supply
• Toilet facility
• Garbage/refuse disposal
• Drainage system
❑ Kind of neighborhood
❑ Social and health facilities available
❑ Communication and transportation facilities
available.

IV. HEALTH STATUS OF EACH FAMILY

MEMBERS
❑ Medical and nursing history
❑ Nutritional assessment
• Anthropometric data
• Dietary history per day
• Eating/feeding
• habits/practices
❑ developmental Assessment
❑ Risk factor assessment
❑ Physical Assessment

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