Family Health Assessment Health practices vary from family to family. Families perform health- maintenance activities based on their beliefs about health. The nurse can use a two-level process in an assessment that includes the family as a group and the family member as an individual. The nurse may assess the environment by observing physical surroundings during a home visit. Nurses will also monitor the way the family communicates and their interpersonal interactions. One way to do this is to use the Health Perception- Health Management Pattern. This will reveal the characteristics of the familys health perceptions, health management, and preventive practices. In this paper I...