Aim:
2810NRS Child and Family Nursing Practice Trimester 2, 2017
Supplementary Assessment:
“Nursing Process applied to a Family”
2,000 words
Due Date: Monday 6th November, 2017 by 5.00 pm
The aim of this written assessment item is to apply the nursing process in providing family centred care. When an infant, young child or adolescent experiences a health or social issue, the issue can impact upon all family members. Nurses working in acute care and community settings need to understand the functioning of the family unit so they can care for and assist the whole family.
Instructions:
This 2,000 word written assignment has two distinct parts that you should address separately. Please use headings for each part.
You do not need to provide an introduction or a conclusion for the written assignment or any of the parts.
Use the SUPPLIED scenario for your entire assignment.
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.
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Part 2 - Nursing Care of the Family: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating
(1,500 words)
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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):
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a) Describe the issue
b) Plan nursing care
c) Implement nursing care
d) Evaluate nursing care
o Use appropriate evidence from scholarly literature to describe the issue and
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discuss what is known about the issue/challenge.
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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.
o Describe how you would evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention to address whether it met the planned goal of care.
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Other elements:
Do not include a Griffith University cover page at the start of your assignment. You will agree to the assignment submission statements when you submit electronically.
Refer to the Griffith Health Writing and Referencing Guide for guidance on writing, and referencing according to APA 6th style and presentation.
Ensure that you use relevant scholarly literature1 (digitised readings, research articles, relevant Government reports and text books) that has been published within the last seven (7) years. If you use literature older than 7 years, you will need to justify why you are not using recent literature. Please note it is preferable to locate and use Australian sources if you are describing the extent or magnitude of the issue.
Use academic language2 throughout and write in the third person.
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Refer to the marking criteria when writing your assignment. This will assist you in
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calculating the weightings of the sections for your assignment.
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Submit your assignment as a word document (not a PDF).
Submit a draft assignment via Turnitin and check your Turnitin report (allow up to 24
hours for report generation). If you need more information about Turnitin, make use of
the online resources.
Submit your final assignment via Turnitin to the Supplementary Assessment portal on the
2810NRS Learning@Griffith course site [in the ‘Assessment’ tab].
Keep your Turnitin receipt as a record of successful submission.
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1Some papers are of central importance to a research topic, often because they report a major breakthrough, insight, or a new and generative synthesis of ideas. This kind of paper may describe a study that changes our understanding of a topic, or describes and illustrates a new and highly useful research method. These kinds of articles are often referred to as seminal or classic papers.
2 Everyday language is predominantly subjective. It is mainly used to express opinions based on personal preference or belief rather than evidence. Written academic English is formal. It avoids colloquialisms and slang, which may be subject to local and social variations. Formal language is more precise and stable, and therefore more suitable for the expression of complex ideas and the development of reasoned arguments.
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Family:
Family Scenario: The Kaufman Family
● Tina Kaufman, 15 year old female, in year 10 at high school
● Barbara, 48 years old, Tina’s mother, is a homemaker.
● Stephen, 45 years old, Tina’s step-father. He owns his own construction business
Background:
Tina lives with her mother and step-father in a 4 bedroom house.
Tina does not see her biological father since her parents divorced in 2006.
Stephen and Barbara were married in 2008.
Tina loves singing, dancing and acting in school plays. She also enjoys playing school soccer
and is in the representative soccer team. She gets good grades is school but she has to work hard to keep up with her schoolwork and activities.
Extended family:
Tina’s biological father, Mark aged 43 years old, lives close to Tina but he has not maintained a relationship with her since the divorce.
Mark has remarried Simone, who is 33 years old.
Tina also has a brother, George who is 23 years. He lives interstate and Tina has no
relationship or contact with him either. He lives with his partner, Jeremy. Tina’s parents do
not speak to George.
Barbara’s parents Birgit (aged 72) and Reinhard (aged 76) are both alive and still living
independently. Barbara tries to visit them every fortnight but this has been putting some strain
on her relationship with Stephen, as he does not get along well with them.
Stephen’s father, Christopher died 2 years ago when he was 70 from lung cancer. Stephen’s mother, Robyn, aged 68 years old has dementia and now resides in a nursing home. Stephen
does not like to visit her as she no longer recognises him.
Current situation:
Most of the family's interest revolves around Tina’s athletic activities such as baseball and church related activities such as Sunday services and youth centered groups. The family attends a full gospel, non-denominational church on a regular basis. The family is of German descent and likes to keep to themselves. They rarely see anyone on a personal basis and have no close personal friends. Tina’s recreational habits consist of playing softball and basketball and attending youth oriented activities at church such as youth camp and bible studies.
Tina usually goes to the library to study during the lunch break instead of the cafeteria to eat lunch. She says she doesn’t need to eat if she is not hungry. She prefers grabbing a snack in the school vending machines or at a convenience store on her way home after school like most of her friends do. Tina’s mother Barbara, says Tina is so busy that she has no time to eat meals with the family.
Lately, Tina’s friends have made comments to her about how much she has grown and “filled out.” Tina is concerned that she is gaining too much weight. Tina weighs herself every day and is 56.5 kilograms. When her weight goes above 56.5 kilograms, Tina limits her food intake to bagels, low-fat yogurt, fruits, and vegetables (mainly salads) and does not eat meat products and desserts. Barbara is not sure whether to support Tina’s efforts to lose weight.
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Tina is due for a sports physical assessment, before making an appointment for the physical examination with the family doctor. Barbara decides to bring Tina to see you, the School nurse to assess Tina and share her concerns about Tina’s eating behaviours.
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MARKING CRITERIA
POSSIBLE MARK
Nursing care of the family: Assessment
Uses the supplied template to create a genogram and insert it into the body of the assignment.
Correctly uses text and symbols to visually represent the family and creates an accurate, comprehensive genogram.
10
Accurately summarises the family structure and demonstrates understanding of the family assessment findings
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Clearly identifies and describes two family strengths using the AFSNAG
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Nursing care of the family: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating
For each issue:
Issue 1
Issue 2
a) Description of issue/challenge
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10
b) Planning nursing care
Provides a relevant nursing goal
Provides a clear, logical justification for the chosen goal (why it is
relevant to the issue)
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5
c) Implementing nursing care
Discusses one appropriate nursing intervention to achieve the goal
Provides a clear, logical justification for the chosen nursing intervention
Supplements the nursing intervention by recommending an online
resource for the family and providing an appropriate referral
10
10
d) Evaluating nursing care
Describes how the nurse would evaluate the effectiveness of this nursing intervention and whether it met the planned goal of care
5
5
All parts – REFERENCING and USE OF EVIDENCE
The written assessment task is appropriately supported by no fewer than 10 different sources
The sources are scholarly and are appropriately inserted in-text to provide relevant evidence to support the point/s made
Referencing (in-text citations and reference list entries) strictly adheres to APA Style 6th Edition guidelines.
Reference list starts on a separate page.
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All parts - PRESENTATION and STRUCTURE
Conforms to the Assignment Presentation Formatting Guidelines
Includes assignment title page (not Griffith University assignment
submission cover sheet)
Essay is well presented, with correct spelling, grammar, and well- 10
constructed sentence and paragraph structure
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Total marks 100