NUR1 221 Lecture Notes - Independent Community And Health Concern, Chat Room, Genogram
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In nurses and families: a guide to family assessment and intervention. (5th ed. , pp. The calgary family assessment model (cfam) is an integrated, multidimensional framework based on the foundations of systems, cybernectics, communication, and change theory and influenced by postmodernism and biology of cognition. It is recognize as one of the four leading family assessment models in the world. This diagram helps to conceptualize the three categories and its subcategories. It is important for the nurses to go back and forth to able to draw together all of the relevant information into an integrated assessment. It is important to recognize that a family assessment is based on the nurse"s personal and professional life experiences, beliefs, and relationships with those being interviewed. It should not be considered as the truth about the family but rather one perspective at a particular point in time.