Community Health Nursing

ENGAGEMENT:

The family I decided to do my project on is the Johnson family. My sister-in-law at my niece’s birthday party introduced the Johnson to me. The Johnson family is the “nuclear dual career type.” A nuclear dual career family is “a basic family unit consisting of parents and their children,” (Davis, F. A. 1997, p.1313) in which both parents are working parents. The Johnson family migrated to Canada from Cape Verde, West Africa about fifteen years ago. The family consists of Michael Johnson (father), a 50 years old man who works as an order picker in a supply chain management company, a mother, Elizabeth, a 45 years old factory worker, Tracy, (eldest child) aged 19 attends university and works part time. Clement, (second child) aged 17 attends college, and Cathy,(third child) aged 13 is a junior high school student. My client family lives in a modest three bedroom rented apartment building in downtown Mississauga, Ontario. They are practicing Christians.

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