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Data Collection Methods in Nursing

This document discusses different methods of collecting data, including observing, interviewing, and examining. It distinguishes between subjective and objective data. It then outlines the types of data that should be collected in a family nursing assessment, including family structure, socioeconomic factors, home environment, health status of family members, and health practices. The last section introduces an individual data base tool used to assess wellness, threats, deficits, and stressors in a family.

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Data Collection Methods in Nursing

This document discusses different methods of collecting data, including observing, interviewing, and examining. It distinguishes between subjective and objective data. It then outlines the types of data that should be collected in a family nursing assessment, including family structure, socioeconomic factors, home environment, health status of family members, and health practices. The last section introduces an individual data base tool used to assess wellness, threats, deficits, and stressors in a family.

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Data Collection

Methods of Data Collection


• Observing:
Is to gather data by watching
carefully the way something
happens or the way someone
do something, especially in
order to learn more about it.
Methods of Data Collection
• Interviewing:
A conversation in which
someone is asked questiobs
about themselves or a subject
they know about.
Methods of Data Collection
• Examining:
Is a systematic data collection
method that uses observation
(i.e senses of sight, hearing, smell
and touch) to detect health
problems.
DATA COLLECTION
• Subjective Data – It is referred to as
symptoms or covert data

• Objective Data – It is referred to as


signs or overt data detectable by
an observer
Types of Data in Family Nursing Assessment

1. Family structure, characteristics and dynamics

• Include composition and demographic data of the


members of the family/ household, their relationship
to the head and place of residence; type of,and
family interaction/communication and decision-
making patterns and dynamics.
Types of Data in Family Nursing Assessment

2. Socio- economic and cultural characteristics

• Include occupation, place of work, and income of


each working member; educational attainment of
each family member; ethnic background and
religious affiliation; significant others and the other
role(s) they play in the family’s life; and, the
relationship of the family to the larger community.
Types of Data in Family Nursing Assessment

3. Home and environment

• Include information on housing and sanitation


facilities; kind of neighborhood and availability of
social, health, communication and transporation
facilities in the community.
Types of Data in Family Nursing Assessment

4. Health status of each member

• Includes current and past significant illness; beliefs


and practices conducive to health and illness;
nutritional and developmental status; physical
assessment findings and significant results of
laboratory/ diagnostic tests/ screening procedures.
Types of Data in Family Nursing Assessment

5. Values and practices on health promotion/


maintenance and disease prevention

• Include use of preventive services; adequacy of


rest/ sleep, exercise, relaxation activities, stress
management or other healthy lifestyle activities,
and immunization status of at-risk family members.
Individual Data Base

This tool is use to identify existing and potential


wellness state/s, health threats, health deficits, and
stress points/ foreseeable crises in a given family.

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