This family is comprised of a father, mother and son not living in the same household. There has been a recent separation of the parents and separation of households. The family still lives near each other and work for the same employer. The father and mother share custody of the child centered on their work schedule. They also attend school functions together whenever possible. The family is healthy but there are weight issues with the mother and father both being overweight. They are generally healthy people with no physical issues at this time. H.L. has suffered from depression and alcoholism, she takes medication for depression at this time. The depression has been exacerbated by the breakup of her relationship and home. Her stress level is high with work, single parenthood and her extended family out of state. H.L. smokes cigarettes but doesn’t smoke in the house. She states that she occasionally smokes in the car with K.T. The father denies health issues and only takes a multi vitamin and fish oil supplement. He only seeks health care when he is ill and states he will have a full checkup when he 40 years old. The child is of average weight and height but the parents are concerned about his gaining weight. The child has all immunizations that are needed for his age. He has been a healthy child only suffering from the usual childhood illnesses of colds and flu. The family has time constraints and often picks up fast-food instead of cooking wholesome foods. . They will pick up pizza, hamburgers, chicken or tacos. The family drinks sugary drinks such as pop or kool aid daily. The parents encourage milk products such as yogurt and cheese. The child is a picky eater and getting him to eat his vegetables can be a challenge. The ... ... middle of paper ... ...balize feelings and concerns (Wilkinson, 2012. P. 290). • Preserve family routines and rituals (Wilkinson, 2012. p. 290). Works Cited Author (2013). Help guide helps you help yourself and others. Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/index.htm Nelson, T. S., Fleuridas, C., Rosenthal, D. M. (1986). The evolution of circular questions: Training family therapists. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 12(2), 113-127. Spector, R.E. (2013). Cultural diversity in health and illness (8th ed). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. Weight Watchers (2013). Retrieved from http://www.weightwatchers.com/index.aspx Wilkinson, J. (2012). Nursing diagnosis handbook. (10th ed.). Shawnee, KS: Pearson Education, Inc. Wright L.M., & Leahey, M. (2013). Nurses and families: A guide to family assessment and intervention (6th Ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis Company
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I will be evaluating the case of Angela and Adam. Angela is a white 17 year old female and Adam is her son who is 11 months old (Broderick, P., & Blewitt, P., 2015). According to Broderick, P., & Blewitt, P., (2015) Angela and her baby live with her mother, Sarah, in a small rental house in a semirural community in the Midwest. Adam’s father, Wayne, is estranged from the family due to Sarah refusing to allow him in the house however, Angela continues to see him without her mother’s permission which is very upsetting for Sarah. Angela dropped out of high school and struggles raising her son (Broderick, P., & Blewitt, P., 2015). With all that is going on in Angela and Sarah’s life right now their relationship has become strained and hostile which
The family discussed includes a father (M.M.) age 27, a mother (J.M.) age 25, and an infant son (J.L.M.) age four months. M.M. and J.M. are the biological parents
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The children range in age from 12-15 and their issues from simple obesity to needing gastric-bypass surgery. The children are fed fast food in school cafeterias, with government labeling of pizza, fries and tomato paste as vegetables. Stores have candies and snacks at children’s eye level, and at home they eat the standard offerings of processed foods. One of the other things this film shows is the complete lack of support for these families in the area of proper diet education. A couple of the parents talked about the doctors encouraging them to seek help with nutrition, the doctors did not have any useful advice on where to get this
J.P., a 58 year old female, presents to the Emergency Room on March 18th. She has a past medical history of cervical cancer, atheroembolism of the left lower extremity, fistula of the vagina, peripheral vascular disease, neuropathy, glaucoma, GERD, depression, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and sickle cell anemia. She complains of right lower extremity pain accompanied by fatigue, a decreased appetite, increased work of breathing, burning on urination, and decreased urine output for three days.
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Nursing interventions should encourage family members to participate as well as be the ones who care about their child most. Special attention is needed to pay for children who attend day-care facilities and follow-up care is necessary. Word count: 1674.
There is a lack of conceptual clarity with cultural competence in the field and the research community. Cultural competence is seen as encompassing only racial and ethnic differences, and omitting other population groups who are ethnically and racially similar to providers, but are stigmatized or discriminated against, who are different in other identities, and have some differences in their health care needs that have resulted in health disparities. (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality,
Busy lives filled with work, school, and extracurricular activities cause parents to rely on these restaurants for their convenience. Fast food chains now offer every item they sell “supersized”. One meal can have as many calories as is recommended for one full day. If a child eats fast food three times a day they could be consuming almost three times the recommended daily allowance. This along with the costs of fresh fruits and vegetables, and the availability of these foods makes it very difficult for them to make good choices. Parents often do not have the resources to provide their children with low calorie fresh foods. The cost is often out of their budget and the old habit of purchasing cheap fast food is hard to
Kaakinen, J. R., Gedaly-Duff, V., Coehlo, D. P., & Harmon Hanson, S. M. (2010). Family Health Care Nursing: Theory, Practice and Research. (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: F.A. Davis .
In health care, there are many different approaches throughout the field of nursing. When considering the field of family nursing, there are four different approaches to caring for patients. This paper will discuss the different approaches along with a scenario that covers that approach. The approaches that will be discussed include family as a context, family as a client, family as a system, and family as a component to society. Each of these scenarios are approach differently within the field of nursing.