Child and Family Nursing Practice Assessment 1: Genogram & Essay, 2019

This assignment, completed for a Child and Family Nursing Practice course, focuses on the application of family assessment tools, specifically genograms and eco-maps, within a nursing context. The assignment requires the creation of a genogram based on a provided case study and a 500-word essay. The essay defines genograms, explains their rationale in nursing assessment, and discusses the benefits of another family assessment model (eco-map). It references multiple scholarly articles to support the use of these tools in identifying family patterns, understanding family dynamics, and informing nursing interventions. The assignment highlights how these tools aid in comprehensive family care and in the development of effective healthcare strategies. The assignment emphasizes the importance of family-centered care in nursing practice.

Child and Family Nursing Practice
Assessment 1, Trimester 2
2019
Genogram & Essay (500 WC)

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Essay
A genogram is an illustration of a family tree that exhibit thorough data on relations with
individuals. Unlike usual family tree it considers inherited patterns and psychological aspects
that interrupt interaction. It takes account of at least 3 age band of the family. A genogram uses
symbols to depict persons and relationships. It abridges data about a family in a brief timeframe
and in a straightforward manner likewise gives a vehicle to picking up knowledge into family
advancement and working. It offers new bits of knowledge into the family and can be an impetus
for change. It connects with kids, parents and young people in the evaluation procedure.
Genograms allow a nurse and his/her patient to speedily spot and comprehend various
blueprints in the patient's family history which could have/had an impact on the patient's existing
status. The genogram maps out relations and individuality that may or else be overlooked on an
ancestry diagram. Genogram helps in spot potency and gives opinion to family members, back
up family members in developing potencies and can call forth family potencies to attain goals or
solve a crisis. It can be used to identify recurring examples of behavior and to recognize
inherited tendencies. Information acquired from the genogram can be exercised to invent nursing
interventions that focus on incorporating family potencies into the plan of concern (Souza,
Bellato, Araújo, & Almeida, 2016). Recognizing the idea of family qualities opens another field
for medical attendants to create viable social insurance systems and chances to actualize family-
engaged intercessions to give comprehensive consideration (Piasecka, Slusarska & Drop, 2018).
The eco map is a pictorial portrayal of the connections of an individual involving a
family and the additional structures in his/her ecologic surroundings. An ecomap delineates the
relatives' cooperation with one another in more extensive network.

The nurse engrosses family members in the map’s advancement. A focal circle is pinched
to represent the individual or family, and littler circles on the outskirts speak to individuals and
the frameworks related to individual or family such as healthcare or church. Lines are drawn
among family and outside contacts to demonstrate the idea of the association. These connections
can be powerful and constructive, tense and depressing, or doubtful (Crawford, Grant & Crews,
2016).
An Ecomap can be a useful asset for discovering potential wellsprings of melancholy and
tension just as informative masked sensitively accommodating networks in friends, neighbors,
clubs, proficient offices, foundations, and community or sacred associations (Miller, Fields,
Adorno & Smith-Osborne, 2017). It is provide firsthand information about the patient (Bennett,
Jo & Grant, Natalie, 2016) and also given a premise to further addressing to look at how choices
about the kind of inclusion were made, the qualities of the relationship that empowered nonstop
association or separation from contribution over the direction of the ailment. Subsequently,
ecomap is an impetus for acquiring more inside and out information, with the representations
giving talk triggers. The visual portrayal given by the ecomap was effectively modified and
refreshed at each meeting.

References
K, Piasecka & B, Slusarska & B, Drop. (2018). Genograms in Nursing Education and Practice a
Sensitive but Very Effective Technique: A Systematic Review. Journal of Community
Medicine & Health Education. 08. 10.4172/2161-0711.1000640.
Souza, Í., Bellato, R., Araújo, L., & Almeida, K. (2016). Genogram and Eco-Map as Tools for
Understanding Family Care in Chronic Illness of the Young. Texto & Contexto –
Enfermagem, 25(4). doi: 10.1590/0104-07072016001530015
V. J. Miller, N. L. Fields, G. Adorno & A. Smith-Osborne (2017).Using the Eco-Map and
Ecosystems Perspective to Guide Skilled Nursing Facility Discharge Planning. Journal of
Gerontological Social Work, 60:6-7, 504-518, DOI: 10.1080/01634372.2017.1324548
Marcus R. Crawford, Natalie S. Grant, and Douglas A. Crews (2016). Relationships and Rap:
Using Ecomaps to Explore the Stories of Youth Who Rap. British Journal of Social
Work, 46, 239–256
Bennett, Jo & Grant, Natalie. (2016). Using an Ecomap as a Tool for Qualitative Data Collection
in Organizations. New Horizons in Adult Education and Human Resource Development.
28. 1-13. 10.1002/nha3.20134.