Disease Prevention and Nurse's Intervention on Various Health Problems

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Family Nursing Care Plan A family nursing care plan refers to a guide that provides strategies for resolving family health-related issues. It is a holistic approach to ensuring every member is healthy by adopting effective lifestyle practices such as a balanced diet and proper nutrition and knowing about pregnancy and complications related to it (Kiryu & Sato, 2019). The knowledge informs appropriate nursing interventions to ensure the optimum health of the household. To underscore the need for a family nursing care plan, I construct a fictional family, list their different health needs, and propose strategies to help them achieve better health outcomes. While every family is bound to have health-related complications, designing a healthcare plan for them helps improve their health and sensitizes them to risk factors. Family Problems My fictitious family comprises three generations and six family members. Mark is a 73-year-old German who is married to a 59-year-old Asian, Shireen. The couple has a 40-year-old daughter named Tracy and a 32-year old son named Tom. While he is unmarried and has no child yet, the daughter is currently three months pregnant and has an 18-year old daughter and a three-year-old boy. Mark, the head of the family, was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He is overweight and adopts a sedentary lifestyle. Shireen is relatively healthy but prefers red meat, lots of sugary foods, and junk foods. Her last hospital visit revealed that she had high blood pressure. Tom has had no health problems, preferably because he is active in the gym and adopts a healthy diet and nutrition. He eats lots of fruits and vegetables, drinks at least two liters of water daily, and avoids meat. Tracy is often busy at work and seldom eats with the family. She works two jobs and prefers eating fast food. Like his father, she is visibly overweight. Loren is Tracy’s teenage daughter, who wants to be a model and has an eating disorder. Loren is frail, perhaps because she starves a lot in the hope of “getting the right shape.” Marcus—the toddler—eats many sweets and her mother likes to buy him ice creams and snacks. As a result, he is obese and not as active as his age mates. Health Risks and Prevention Being overweight places a lot of health risks on Mark, Tracy, and Marcus. They can quickly develop cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses. Most diabetic patients have high glycemic indices, which mean that they have high blood sugar levels (Delichatsios & Pittas, 2020). Unless they change their lifestyles, they might develop severe conditions such as slow-healing wounds, eyesight problems, and neural diseases such as stroke. Perhaps three should start by transforming their diets and taking time off their busy schedules to exercise at least thrice a week. Shireen may want to reduce her intake of sugary foods, red meat, and junk foods to prevent prediabetes. Cardiov...