School of Nursing
FAMILY NURSING ASSESSMENT TOOL
TYPE OF FAMILY: FAMILY DYNAMICS/COMMUNICATION PATTERNS/INTERACTIONAL PROCESSES: (describe the characteristic communication/interaction patterns between/
among subsystems evidences of love, openness/warmth, caring/helping, listening, ability to handle conflict, change, anticipated and unexpected events;
According to structure & composition: __Extended______________________ evidences of presence or absence of any obvious or readily observable conflict/s between members, etc.)
According to family head and decision making: _shared___________________ Spouse subsystem: ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________
According to roles/bread-earning : ___________________________________ Parent-child subsystem: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________
Sibling-sibling subsystem: _seldom discuss or talk about intimate topics_________________________________________________________________
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School of Nursing
BUDGET AND ACTUAL EXPENSES (Please specify in the table if the budget and expenses is daily, weekly or monthly-based. Questions to elicit this set of data should be very discreet, non-direct and non-embarassing):
BASIC NECESSITIES BUDGET ACTUAL EXPENSES CONCLUSION: ADEQUACY TO MEET BASIC NECESSITIES USING THE TOTAL INCOME, BUDGET AND ACTUAL EXPENSES AS
BASIS
Food and water 3000 3000 Adequate (income=budget and actual expenses); inadequate (actual expenses exceeds budget and income); more than
Shelter (home maintenance/repairs, rent) 500 0 adequate (income exceeds actual expenses)
Clothing 0 0 The appropriate income is 3000 2 000 sent byNerio = 5000, that actual expences/month is 9000 therefore there is a small
Education 500 600 amount with 1200/month, the income is adequate to provide some with the basic necessities with the family they can use
Health 0 0 this for clothing,
Electricity, electronics, communication and other services 500 300
Others (car repair/maintenance, gasoline, etc.) 500 0
TOTAL 6000/month 3900/motnh
FAMILY TRADITIONS, EVENTS OR PRACTICES THAT AFFECT MEMBERS HEALTH OR FAMILY FUNCTIONING (please describe): ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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