6541 DISCUS 1 | Your Nursing Expert

Note: Throughout this course, the term parent will be used to represent a pediatric patient’s caregiver, which may include a parent, stepparent, foster parent, guardian, and so on.

To prepare:

•Review this week’s RESOURCES , as well as “Child and Family Health Assessment,” “Cultural Perspectives for Pediatric Primary Care,” and “Developmental Management in Pediatric Primary Care” in the Burns et al. text.

•Consider how a provider’s personal definition of family and family roles might impact the assessment of a child and the child’s family.

•Reflect on how the culture of the provider and/or the patient may further influence the assessment.

•Think about three strategies that a provider can use to assist families with making health-related decisions for children at different stages of growth and development. Consider how these strategies might change when assessing patients at different stages of growth and development and with different family backgrounds.

POST 2 PAGES OR MORE ON :

1) An explanation of how a provider’s personal definition of family and family roles might impact the assessment of a child and his or her family.

2) Then, explain how culture (both the culture of the provider and that of the child and his or her family) may further influence the assessment.

3) Finally, explain at least three strategies that the provider can use to assist families with making health-related decisions for children at different stages of growth and development.

4) Also, explain how these strategies might change when assessing patients at different stages of growth and development and with different family backgrounds.

REFERENCES

Burns, C. E., Dunn, A. M., Brady, M. A., Starr, N. B., & Blosser, C. G. (2013). Pediatric primary care (5th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier.

◦ Chapter 2, “Child and Family Health Assessment” (pp. 10–31)

Chapter 3, “Cultural Perspectives for Pediatric Primary Care” (pp. 32–41)

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2012). Healthy people 2020 topics and objectives. Retrieved from http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/default.aspx

Hagan, J. F., Jr., Shaw, J. S., Duncan, P. M. (Eds.). (2008). Bright futures: Guidelines for health supervision of infants, children, and adolescents (3rd ed.). Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.

◦“Promoting Family Support” (pp. 13–37)

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