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The objective of doing the genogram is to get to know the patient by gaining understanding of his/her family background. Assessing the family using systemic approach enables health care providers to learn about the ways in which family members interact, what are the family expectations and norms, how effective is the members communication, who makes decisions and how the family deals with life time stressors (Hockenberry & Wilson, 2007). This paper outlines the assessment and analysis of the three generation of Wits’ and Smiths’ families, its relationship, health pattern, habits, tradition and structure. It also provides a nursing teaching plan. The interview was conduced with Alina Wit, a second generation mother of three.
Wits and Smiths families are of Polish descent. Alina, her husband and kids moved to New York six years ago, exactly in March of 2002. All of their extended family lives in Poland in a small city of Zamosc. Both of Alina’s and Lucian’s parents are dead.......

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