Select a family within your community to complete the assignments

The Clinical Action Plan will involve one initial family assessment visit and one follow-up visit to implement the plan (based on the family assessment data). Ensure that a signed Consent and Release of Liability form has been submitted to the instructor prior to the first point of contact with the selected family.

Select a family within your community to complete the assignments for Weeks 2 and 4.

Review the key points of therapeutic conversation found in Ch. 20 of Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations.

Review the following from Community Tool Box:

Section 12. Conducting Interviews

Section 15. Qualitative Methods to Assess Community Issues

Formulate key questions for obtaining valuable information.

Interview the family for your assessment, take notes, and ensure you address:

Demographic data

Developmental stage and history of family

Environmental data

Family structure

Family functions

Family stress and coping

Family composition

Provide a brief overview of the family members, and identify each family member’s role within the family.

Note: Remove all personally identifying information such as the family members’ names. Refer to family members by initials only.

Complete a Genogram and Ecomap based on family assessment data. (See figures 20-3 and 20-4 (p. 393) in Community/Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Health of Populations.)

Format your assessment data as one of the following:

Table

Chart

Matrix

Legal-sized infographic

875-word summary

Submit your assessment, Genogram, and Ecomap.

The family consists of 2 people (husband and wife) living in low income housing in Miami, Fl