Discussion Post: Community Health Nursing
Discuss the concept of life review. What are the goals and benefits of a life review? How is life review similar and different than ordinary remembering?
Homework
Length: 1500 words.
Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:
a. Demographics, life time education and career/employment
b. Two most significant (positive) times in their lives
c. What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?
d. Two personal strengths
e. Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills
f. Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now.
g. Three pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?
h. Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient Stress Questionnaire, and the Mini-Mental Status Exam
i. Discuss your older adult's level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?
j. Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.
k. Create a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with two nursing interventions each.
Record the time you spend interviewing the client and writing the assessment report as practice experience hours in Project Concert as ‘Older Adult Interview' for Module. (Discussion Board work does not apply). It is expected to take you between 2-4 hours. Access Project Concert. Minimum required hours must be entered into Project Concert for Module. Some states/entities require hour logs for certification or employment. It is the student's professional responsibility to ensure all hours are entered correctly in order to meet these requirements. Please see the Project Concert directions document in the Learning Materials on how to enter hours.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.