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Assignment: After you have read chapter 20 of the class textbook and review the PowerPoint presentation, choose a family in your community and conduct a family health assessment addressing the questions below.

Question 1. Family composition.

Type of family, age, gender and racial/ethnic composition of the family.

Question 2. Roles of each family member. Who is the leader in the family? Who is the primary provider? Is there any other provider?

Question 3. Do family members have any existing physical or psychological conditions that are affecting family function?

Question 4. Home (physical condition) and external environment; living situation (this must include financial information). How the family support itself.

For example, working parents, children or any other member

Question 5. How adequately have individual family members accomplished age-appropriate developmental tasks?

Question 6. Do individual family member's developmental states create stress in the family?

Question 7. What developmental stage is the family in? How well has the family achieve the task of this and previous developmental stages?

Question 8. Any family history of genetic predisposition to disease?

Question 9. Immunization status of the family?

Question 10. Any child or adolescent experiencing problems

Question 11. Hospital admission of any family member and how it is handled by the other members?

Question 12. What are the typical modes of family communication? It is affective? Why?

Question 13. How are decisions make in the family?

Question 14. Is there evidence of violence within the family? What forms of discipline are use?

Question 15. How well the family deals with crisis?

Question 16. What cultural and religious factors influence the family health and social status?

Question 17. What are the family goals?

Question 18. Identify any external or internal sources of support that are available?

Question 19. Is there evidence of role conflict? Role overload?

Question 20. Does the family have an emergency plan to deal with family crisis, disasters?

Question 21. Identify 3 nursing diagnosis and develop a short plan of care using the nursing process.

Please present your assessment in an APA format on a 12 Arial font, word document attached to the forum in the discussion tab of the blackboard and in the SafeAssign exercise (mandatitle "family assessment" 4 evidence-based practice references besides the class textbook are require and must be quoted in the assignment. A minimum of 1000 words are required, excluding the first and reference page (Websites can be used but will not count toward grading).