 Family health assessment helps practitioners identify the health status of

individual members of the family and aspects of family composition, function

and process.
 Assessment tools:
 1. genogram – helps to outline family’s structure
 2. ecomap – used to depict’s a family linkages to its suprasystems.
 3. family enterviewing – as a medium for providing family intervention.
Components:
 a. manners
 b. therapeutic questions and conversation
 c. family genogram ( if indicated)
 d. commendations
 Family Data Analysis:
 1. family structure and characteristics
 2. socioeconomic characteristics
 3. family environment
 4. family health and behaviour
 Family Nursing diagnosis:
 1. physical independence
 2. therapeutic competence
 3. knowledge of health condition
 4. application of principles of personal and general hygiene
 5. health care attitudes
 6. emotional competence
 7. family living patterns
 8. physical environment
 9. use of community facilities
 Formulating a Plan of Care:
 1. priority setting
 a. family safety
 b. family perception
 c. practicality
 d. projected effects
 2. establishing goals and objectives
 a. specific
 b. measurable
 c. attainable
 d. relevant
 e. time-bounded
 3. determining appropriate interventions:
 a. supplemental interventions
 b. facilitative interventions
 c. developmental interventions
 d. principle of personalization
 Implementing the Plan of care:
 = determined by the mutuality agreed upon goals and objectives
 = the selected courses of action
 = should be conscious of possible barriers to implementing planned strategies ( family
related or nurse related).
 Evaluation:
 1. effectiveness
 2. appropriateness
 3. adequacy
 4. efficiency
 Application of Nursing process:
 1. Assessment
 a. individual level
 = Diagnosis
 - knowledge deficit
 - risk-prone health behaviour
 - imbalanced nutrition
 = Planning
 - goal
 - objectives
 2. Interventions – based on the diagnosis that is presented
 3. Evaluation – based on what the outcome effective or not
 b. Family level:
 = Diagnosis
 - readiness for enhanced family coping related to availability of
development support for needs
 = Planning
 - goal and objectives
 = Interventions
 = Evaluation