Nursing: Parenthood TV series (2010)
Parenthood TV series (2010) captures parenthood occurring within the Braverman family expanding through three generations. Featured characters include father Zeek Braverman and mother Camille Braverman; oldest son Adam; his wife and three children; daughter Sarah and her two children; second son Crosby, Jasmine his new wife, Jabbar another son and last child daughter Julia, her husband Joel and their daughter Sydney, and adopted son, Victor. Julia Graham played Erika Christensen is the character of focus for this movie review. Importantly, she is the youngest of four Braverman siblings and an astute lawyer at a top law firm in her state. Later in the show she quits her job to focus on family commitments since the series is about parenting skills through generations (Parenthood, 2010).
Erik Erikson’s Stages of Development in relation to character
The character Julia Graham appears to be an energetic young successful woman. According to Erickson’s (1964) stages of development she is between the ages of 25-64 when the virtues of caring are prominent. This is exemplified by leaving her job to care for the family adopting Victor in fulfilling this caring desire. Development of significant relationships during this stage leans towards household engagements and work mates’ interactions. With Julia resigning her job means that she was trying to balance the two relationships choosing family above workmates (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2004).
Three challenges/barriers to the positive progression
These three challenges center on the question how can I make life count? This adult stage encompasses generativity with significant interactions and obligations to family, work, and society. Therefore, the challenges lie in first establishing personal meaning of the present life interactions; secondly, guiding the next generation successfully into a productive livelihood and sustaining as role model for productivity and creativity now and in the future.
In Julia qualifying as a lawyer it could be considered a positive progression of establishing personal meaning. However, pressures of job and family have pushed her into making a decision committing more to household endeavors than a career as being the family tradition. The struggle is determining which of these two virtues will make a greater impact on her productivity and creativity now and in the future. As a nurse three health promotion measures which can be adapted to assist this young successful lawyer in coping with Generativity vs. Stagnation in middle adulthood are to advise on counseling interventions; an exercise program and involvement in community activities of her choice (Kail & Cavanaugh, 2004).
Description of two nursing diagnoses
In the health promotion domain 1 Julia has a nursing diagnosis relating deficient community health. This is depicted in the resigning of her job and committing to family mainly. The developmental stage at which she is now requires participation in community activities apart from being enclosed in family only. There is no Acute Pain r/t tissue injury AEB: no pallor, no restlessness, HR 122 bpm, RR 24/min and the client did not report any pain 7/0-10 (Weir-Hughes, 2009). The second nursing diagnosis can be found in domain 6 which is readiness for enhanced self-control. While Julia is a successful lawyer on or off the job, due to workload pressures she appears to lose control at times and turns on her family in expressing frustrations.
References
Kail, V., & Cavanaugh, C. (2004). Human development: A life-span view (3rd ed.). Belmont,
CA: Thomson/Wadsworth
Parenthood (2010) Retrieved June 27th, 2013 from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1416765/
Weir-Hughes, D. (2009). Nursing diagnosis in administration. In Herdman, TH (Ed.), Nursing
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