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FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT
7- Family communication patterns.
8- Family decision making patterns.
9- Family problem solving patters.
10- Family coping patterns.
11- Family health behavior.
12- Family social and cultural patterns.
Guidelines for family health assessment:
Assessment of family health will be most accurate if it incorporates the
following guide-lines:
1- Focus on the family, not the member.
2- Utilize goal-directed questions.
3- Allow adequate time for data collection.
4- Combine quantitative with qualitative data.
5- Exercise Professional Judgment.
Obstacles to family health nursing practice
1. Most of practicing nurses have not had exposure to family concepts
during their education.
2. Lack of good compressive family assessment models, instruments and
strategies.
3. Medical model has traditionally focused on the individual as client, not
the family.
4. Nursing diagnostic systems used in health care are disease-
centered/focused on individuals.
5. Traditional charting system in health care has been oriented to individual.
6. Insurance is carried out and coverage data is collected on individual basis,
not on the family unit.
7. The hours during which health care systems provide services to families
are at times of day when family members cannot accompany one another.
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