Genograms for nursing students
Health assessment wants a three-generation family health history, every relative tagged with their conditions, ages, and cause of death, in standard symbols. Genogram Pro tracks 16+ conditions per person with onset dates, marks every death, and drafts the first version from a paragraph of family history.
- Free editor, no signup
- 16+ conditions with onset dates
- Three-generation health history
- Deceased and cause of death
Used by nursing students at
- University College London
- Montclair State University
- Boston College
- Lancaster University
- Louisiana State University
- NC State University
- San Diego State University
- University of Hawaii
- Indiana University
What the family health history actually takes
Three generations, every condition, by hand
Your instructor wants grandparents, parents, and the patient, each tagged with diagnoses, ages, and cause of death. Remember one more aunt with hypertension and you are redrawing the whole page.
A family tree will not pass the rubric
Ancestry-style trees have nowhere to put a condition, a vital status, or a pregnancy loss. The assignment asks for clinical notation, not a decorative chart.
It is due, and you just finished a 12-hour clinical
Between rotations, care plans, and NCLEX prep, there is no spare evening to wrestle a diagram tool into something readable.
The grade is in the symbols
Wrong mark for a deceased relative, or a condition on the wrong generation, and the points come off. It has to be correct, not just neat.
Built for the family health history
Conditions per person and the three-generation layout are the whole point here, not an extra you bolt on.
- Conditions tracked per person
- Tag each relative with diabetes, hypertension, cancer, depression, and more, with onset dates and your own custom conditions. Color one and the pattern down the family shows itself.
- Three generations, laid out right
- Index patient, parents, grandparents, and siblings on set levels, with twins, adoption, and pregnancy loss in standard symbols.
- Build it from the history
- Paste the family history paragraph and the AI places the people, conditions, and deaths for you to check.
- Hand it in clean
- Export a PDF that reads like clinical work, ready for the assignment or a care plan.
What it looks like on the canvas
The relationships and symbols from your coursework, drawn in standard McGoldrick notation.
Your instructor grades against a rubric
Nursing faculty read these for standard symbols, three generations, and conditions on the right people. Genogram Pro keeps you on McGoldrick notation by default, so your marks are about the family, not the formatting.
- Standard symbols for sex, vital status, pregnancy, and loss
- Deceased relatives marked with age and cause of death
- Conditions on the right person with onset dates, not guessed
- Clean PDF and PNG sized for the assignment or a care plan
Every symbol follows McGoldrick notation. See the full genogram symbols reference.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is it free for nursing students?
Does it use the symbols my health assessment course teaches?
Can I track conditions across three generations?
Can the AI build it from a family history?
How do I submit it?
Build your family health history tonight
Open the free editor, no signup. Saving and exporting come with a 7-day trial, and some nursing programs have free access set up for students.