Essay - Family Assessment and Nursing Professional Nursing Practice Supports the Need...

Family Assessment and Nursing

Professional nursing practice supports the need to conduct family assessment endeavors for pediatrics to geriatrics. Family assessments, regardless of the specificity of an individual's development, is a viable clinical *****ol to guide the nurse in the process ***** identifying ***** strengths and *****s of the individual to whom care is extended. The remainder of this written assignment will focus on two separate situations wherein family assessment is invaluable. The first article (Bower, et al, 2002) speaks of Alzheimer's disease and the second article (Cuenco, et ***** 2004) relates to the importance of cultural diversity ***** family *****

***** Alzheimer's disease the ***** is an extremely pivotal link to all levels of diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis as well as in determining a care approach. The authors clearly point out the necessity interviewing family members with respect ***** the patient's p*****t and current personality. ***** importance to this writer is in knowing that non-invasive assessment in terms of the ***** of ***** history, relationship patterns, mood disorders, depression, ***** subtle changes of behavior is as important as invasive assessment.

***** second article dealt ***** lymph edema in female Haitian patients. The authors explained the importance of lineage in ***** the exactness ***** the *****. Further, the authors pointed ***** the necessity of determining ***** relevancy of family size in relation to the disease as well ***** multiple family indices, gender affliction, and environmental influences. Although lymph ***** is present in some families, ***** findings were not indicative that host genes or environment regulate the pathogenes*****. This ***** is ***** particular importance to me as a nursing student in ***** it clearly po*****ts out the necess*****y of being aware ***** a family's genetic his*****ry and environment when *****certaining ***** existence of a possible disease.

***** Cited

*****, Fay L. et al. "Synthesis ***** research findings regarding Alzheimer's disease: Part I, assessment ***** *****. The Online Journal of Knowledge Synthesis ***** *****, Vol. 9, 2002.

*****, Karen T. et al. "***** ***** families for excess risk of ***** edema of the leg in a lymph*****tic filariasis-endemic area." *****he American Journ***** ***** Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 70(2),