A nurse is making a visit to the home following a family member's discharge from the hospitalization. Which of the following data would be most helpful?
1. Identify potential areas of strengths in the family.
2. Plan for family care based on assessment of core processes.
3. View the priority of the home visit as the individual who was hospitalized.
4. Conduct a family assessment that remains focused on management of the symptoms.
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1 Identifying the strengths will only provide a limited picture of the family.
2 Assessment of the core process will provide direction for family nursing.
3 The individual and family health are related. The priority may be the family.
4 Focusing on the symptoms may limit the effectiveness of the visit by not addressing concerns of individual or family.
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