Family Assessment Tools The Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) is a renowned assessment tool used by nurses in conceptualizing and organizing data gathered while working with families(Wright and Leahey, 2009). It is a useful tool both for compiling data for a family assessment as well as in assisting families to deal with specific health issues. The CFAM has three main categories namely: structural which encompasses the internal, external and contextual; developmental which includes stages, tasks and attachments; and functional level which hasthe instrumental (daily living activities) and expressive which includes communication, problem solving, roles, power, beliefs, alliances and coalition(John & Flowers, 2009). This model was chosen for its strengths in providing the nursing practitioner with a wide range of areas to engage families with. This is because the model acts as a template for both clinical and generalist practice and it allows nurses to expand their assessment questions within the different categories provided as they increase their skills in the practice of family care.
Part of the Calgary Family Assessment Model is to include an overview of the stages and the task and attachment that is important to each stage (Wright & Leahey, 2013). In addition, CFAM offers a framework to help organize large amounts of data about a family, and the 3 categories of family assessment include: structural, developmental, and functional components. The three aspects of family structure include multiple categories (i.e. internal, external, and context, all of which include subcategories). Based off this model, a family may be defined as who they say they are, as it is a social construct that is influenced by our history and any past
Comfort Theory in Nursing Nursing is a very complex field where things are always changing and evolving. Even though things change very often, there are some things that always stay the same. One of these things is providing the best care for patients and helping them heal and recover as quickly as possible. One things that aids nurses in this is the comfort theory. The comfort theory was formed by looking at the comfort of patients and how it related to their healing process.
Kolcaba developed her comfort theory after conducting a concept analysis of comfort that examined literature from medicine, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, ergonomics and English. Form the analysis, it had confirmed that comfort care is a positive concept and it is highly associated with activities that nurture and strengthen patients’. Kolcaba had developed a theoretical framework for the work on comfort in nursing, conceptualizing suitable care as the immediate and holistic experience of feeling strengthened by meeting the needs of three types of comfort know as relief, ease and transcendence in the four contexts of holistic human experience such as physical, psychospiritual, social-cultural and environmental (Kolcaba, 1994; Kolcaba, 1995; Kolcaba & Fox, 1999 & Kolcaba, et. al. 2006).
The Mc Gill Model of nursing is an example of a strengths based family assessment model that can be used in the community. This model focuses on the family as a client that is able to solve any problems and cope with the health care situation by using their own strengths and knowledge (Feeley & Gottlieb, 2000). The Mc Gill model is best used in a scenario where a family member has a change in which alters the way in which the live, for example child being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. With the use of this model the CHN could assess the family on diabetic diet meal planning and preparation and how the family monitors the child’s blood sugar levels and insulin. The family would need to work together in learning their new roles in regards to
Introduction I am a 24-year-old Female who is working in the Pediatric Surgical Unit as a Registered Nurse at Hospital Authority. In the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM), I learned about genogram and ecomap, which capture the structures and connections between and around the family (Rempel, Neufeld & Kushner, 2007). Also, the stages of the family life cycle (Carter & McGoldrick, 1988) sketched out how family members emotionally react and interact with the transition to roles and responsibilities. In the Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM), I noted the power of using interventive questions to unfold problems and promote behavioral transformation. Analyze Family Interview Skills - Demonstrated with Clinical Example of Children with
Kolcaba developed her comfort theory after conducting a concept analysis of comfort that examined literature from medicine, nursing, psychology, psychiatry, ergonomics and English. Form the analysis, it had confirmed that comfort care is a positive concept and it is highly associated with activities that nurture and strengthen patients’. Kolcaba had developed a theoretical framework for the work on comfort in nursing, conceptualizing suitable care as the immediate and holistic experience of feeling strengthened by meeting the needs of three types of comfort know as relief, ease and transcendence in the four contexts of holistic human experience such as physical, psychospiritual, social-cultural and environmental (Kolcaba, 1994; Kolcaba, 1995; Kolcaba & Fox, 1999 & Kolcaba, et. al. 2006).
The theoretical framework gives a detailed reason to why the highlighted research ques-tion exists. Orem’s self-care deficit theory of nursing is the theoretical framework relat-ing to this research because the theory is further divided into three sub-theories in which requisite are line with the following: Individual stages of development and goals, Health conditions, Developmental states, Energy consumption and expenditure, Atmospheric conditions and also the theory gives room to investigate possible causes of malnutrition alongside nurse’s intervention by assessing the need for care, approaches and required interventions. According Orem in 2001, nursing can be viewed as part of the health sector that provides authorized care to individuals.
After sitting in the hall for five hours, David complained that he needed to lie down. The ER staff, who had been trying to move him to a VA hospital with no luck, finally transferred him by ambulance to a local nursing home. David had a massive stroke shortly after being admitted to the nursing home and died six weeks later (Fremgen, 2016, p. 161). a. Does there appear to be negligence in this case?
This theory helps nurses create a plan of care for patients with family inclusion. The nursing process incorporates an evaluation that concludes if desired goals were met that were set for the patient. King’s theory uses the implication of family to help patients meet these goals while also providing