Assignment Instructions/ Description
Part 1 - Nursing Care of the Family: Assessment (500 words)
Create a genogram to visually depict the family’s structure. You must use the PowerPoint slide which will be supplied to you within the Assessment Folder on Learning@Griffith course site to create your genogram. Save the slide as a picture file (*.jpeg), and insert the picture into your document.
Below the genogram, summarise the structure of the family to demonstrate your understanding of the family assessment findings.
Use the Australian Family Strengths Nursing Assessment Guide (AFSNAG) to identify and briefly describe two (2) strengths of the family you are assessing.
Part 2 - Nursing Care of the Family: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating(1,500 words)
Select two (2) issues/challenges for the family or a member of the family you have selected. These issues may be identified by the nurse, family or both. These can be health, social, or developmental family issues/challenges e.g., breastfeeding, social isolation, transition to parenting; they should not be ‘medical’ issues e.g., diabetes, high blood pressure.
For each issue/challenge identified in the family assessment (allow approximately 750 words per issue):
a) Describetheissue
b) Plannursingcare
c) Implement nursing care
d) Evaluate nursing care
o Use appropriate evidence from scholarly literature to describe the issue and discusswhat is known about the issue/challenge.
o Provide a relevant nursing goal and justify the goal (explain why it is relevant to the issue) using appropriate evidence or policies.
o Outline one nursing intervention that supports the family to achieve the goal. Each nursing intervention should be supplemented by the recommendation of an existing online resource for the family and an appropriate referral.
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