To what extent does discrimination and racism create health disparities? Why are some populations more likely to experience health disparities? Support your position with multiple examples. 

  Family Health Assessment Part I

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: Values/Health Perception Nutrition Sleep/Rest Elimination Activity/Exercise Cognitive Sensory-Perception Self-Perception Role Relationship Sexuality Coping

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: Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family. 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. 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.

Cite at least three peer-reviewed or scholarly sources to complete this assignment. Sources should be published within the last 5 years and appropriate for the assignment criteria.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide.  An abstract is not required.

I am attaching the Guidelines.

  

Comment

Evidence based practice are the base standards in which we base all our nursing practices on. They are methods, experiments, hypothesis that have been tried and true, and proven to be the most effective in standard nursing care. In nursing, critical thinking has been defined as the ability to use in professional actions the highest cognitive abilities, such as to analyze, to question, to evaluate, to conceptualize, comprehending individual and collective health problems in a more precise, logical and appropriate way. These skills directly implicate the achievement of adequate outcomes through effective clinical judgment and clinical decision-making (Costa et. al, 2019). This is important to healthcare and nursing in general because, daily we are made to think about and make decisions regarding healthcare and being responsible for other people’s lives. In doing so, we can’t just make decisions. We need to sit down and critically think about all that we are doing and how our decisions could be affecting the patients’ outcome. When we use evidence-based practice as well, we’re taking something that has been tried and proven to be effective to better take care of our patients. Using evidence-based practice and critical thinking in taking care of our patients sets the standards for what they are needing, and what we should all be trying to exceed in doing.

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Evidence-based Practice is defined as “an integration of the evidence available, nursing expertise, and the values and preferences of the individuals, families and communities who are served.” Other Organizations defines EBP as “a continuous interactive process involving the precise, careful, thorough and judicious consideration of the best available evidence to provide care. “ Evidence-based practice supports nursing care and can contribute positively to patients and family outcomes. EBP Supports nursing care that can be “individualized to patient and their families, is more effective, streamlined, dynamic and maximizes effects of clinical judgement. All in all, these definitions are quite evident in that the focus is primarily on the best ways to find and apply research evidence. Hence, the need for EBP will always remain a constant driving force in nursing and healthcare as a whole.