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NRS 429VN Family-Centered Health
Promotion
Topic 2 Assignment: Family Health Assessment Part 1
Grand Canyon University
june2021
Description:
Understanding family structure and style is essential to patient and family care. Conducting a
family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths, as well as
potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies
for support and guidance.
This family health assessment is a two-part assignment. The information you gather in this initial
assignment will be utilized for the second assignment in Topic 3.
Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The
questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional
health patterns for each of the following:
1. Values/Health Perception 7. Sensory-Perception
2. Nutrition 8. Self-Perception
3. Sleep/Rest 9. Role Relationship
4. Elimination 10. Sexuality
5. Activity/Exercise 11. Coping
6. Cognitive
Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an
interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a
family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.
Upon completion of the interview, write a 750-1,000-word paper. Analyze your assessment
findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix with your assignment.
Include the following in your paper:
1. Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining
the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
2. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the
family.
3. Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths
noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health
were identified.
4. Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family
members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.
NRS 429VN Family-Centered Health
Promotion
Topic 2 Assignment: Family Health Assessment Part 1
Grand Canyon University
june2021
Description:
Understanding family structure and style is essential to patient and family care. Conducting a
family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths, as well as
potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies
for support and guidance.
This family health assessment is a two-part assignment. The information you gather in this initial
assignment will be utilized for the second assignment in Topic 3.
Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The
questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional
health patterns for each of the following:
1. Values/Health Perception 7. Sensory-Perception
2. Nutrition 8. Self-Perception
3. Sleep/Rest 9. Role Relationship
4. Elimination 10. Sexuality
5. Activity/Exercise 11. Coping
6. Cognitive
Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an
interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a
family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.
Upon completion of the interview, write a 750-1,000-word paper. Analyze your assessment
findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix with your assignment.
Include the following in your paper:
1. Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining
the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
2. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the
family.
3. Based on your findings, describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths
noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health
were identified.
4. Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family
members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.
