2810NRS Child And Family Nursing Practice

Part 1 – Nursing Care of the Family: Assessment

• Create a genogram to visually depict the family’s structure (template and exemplar provided)
• Summarise the structure of the family to demonstrate your understanding of the family assessment findings
• Identify and briefly describe two (2) strengths of the family you are assessing using the Australian Family Strengths Nursing Assessment Guide (AFSNAG).

Part 2 – Nursing Care of the Family: Planning, Implementing and Evaluating

• Identify 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
a) Describe the issue
o Use appropriate evidence from scholarly literature to describe the issue and discuss what is known about the issue/challenge.

b) Plan nursing care
o Provide a relevant nursing goal and justify the goal (explain why it is relevant to the issue) using appropriate evidence or policies.

c) Implement nursing care
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.

d) Evaluate nursing care
o Describe how you would evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention to address whether it met the planned goal of care.