Nursing learners will use the nursing process applied to the family as the client. For this learning assignment, learners will collect, analyze, and synthesize data from various sources to understand family strengths, values, and needs related to physical and social determinants of health to promote the health and well-being of the family unit.
Product Information
• Sentinel City®
• Sentinel City® Family Support and Home Assessment®
Population
• Adult
• Pediatric
Learner Level
• Undergraduate
• Graduate with assignment enhancements
Estimated Time to Complete
• 5 to 8 hours
Learning Objectives
Objectives NCLEX QSEN AACN NLN QCCC
Use nursing judgment to develop a plan of care for a single-parent household or other family types SECE PCC Domain 1, 2, 3 HF, NJ Domain 1, 3, 4
Evaluate evidence-based strategies to address nursing care to families and health promotion HPM EBP Domain 3, 4 NJ Domain 1, 4
Develop an appropriate nursing diagnosis or concept (individual focus) and a community health nursing diagnosis or concept (population focus) HPM EBP Domain 1, 2, 3 NJ, SI Domain 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Consider relevant determinants of health at an individual and community level in planning nursing interventions with the family. SECE/HPM Safety Domain 3, 5 HF, NJ Domain 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Evaluate the plan of care for a family unit to promote health and well-being HPM PCC/EBP Domain 1, 2, 3, 4 HF, NJ, SI Domain 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Investigate and prioritize health, safety, and environmental hazards in the home setting SECE EBP, Safety Domain 1, 2, 5 HF, NJ. SI Domain 1
Explore relevant recommendations to address each identified hazard SECE EBP Domain 1, 2, 5 HF, NJ, SI Domain 1, 2, 5, 6
Portions of these materials are taken from The Essentials: Core Competencies for Nursing Education (“The Essentials”), which is owned by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (“AACN”). A full copy of The Essentials and the terms and conditions for downloading can be found at https://www.aacnnursing.org/Essentials/Download-Order. Except as otherwise provided in the AACN downloading terms and conditions, The Essentials may not be distributed in whole or in part to any third parties without express written permission from AACN. Any licensing of The Essentials by AACN does not constitute or imply any endorsement of any company and/or any of its products, services or written work product. AACN is not responsible for any errors or omissions in the translation or reproduction of The Essentials by any third party.
Pre-Brief
- Review course textbook and/or assigned readings
- Review the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Assessing Parent Strengths and Family Connections (https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/assessment/family-assess/parentalneeds/strengthsandconnections )
- Review the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) Social Determinants of Health (https://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/)
- Nursing Judgement Questions: Short answers 1 or 2 sentences.
a. What are relevant social determinants of health as related to the family and home environment?
b. How do social determinants of health affect health promotion and wellness?
Assignment Instructions - Enter Sentinel City® and click the map to locate the apartment in Nightingale Square. Enter the apartment. Once you enter the room, the Family Support Assessment Form will be available.
- Complete the Family Support Assessment Form by asking the client predetermined questions. When the form is completed, click Submit.
- Develop a Family Support Care Plan or Concept Map to address the needs of this family using your institutions’ care plan or concept map template or use the care plan or concept map in the appendix.
- Include a properly formatted community health nursing diagnosis or concepts that address either preschool-age children, single mothers, or pregnant women.
- Once you submit the Family Support Assessment, you will complete the Home Support Assessment by noting any health, safety, and environmental hazards in the apartment.
- There are multiple hazards in the home. Select and prioritize the top two health, safety, and environmental hazards (total of six hazards) the healthcare professional should address first:
a. #1 = most serious hazard-life threatening
b. #2 = second most important potential to affect the most people or cause long term injury - There are obvious overlaps; a health hazard might also be an environmental hazard. Avoid prioritizing the same hazard in multiple categories.
- Provide an evidence-based rationale and a recommendation for the top two hazards in each category.
- For questions, contact your instructor.
