Assignment: Health Assessment- The Holistic Patient Assessment
Length: 1250 to 1500 words.
Description
Part A: Choose an adult (over the age of 18) friend or relative and perform a holistic health assessment. Clearly document your holistic health assessment data
Your assessment should include the following parts:
o Health History
o Physiological Assessment
o Psychological Assessment
o Social Assessment
o Cultural Assessment
o Developmental Assessment
o Spiritual Assessment
Part B: Interpret the findings in your holistic health assessment data according to pathophysiologic disease states.
o Choose one physiologic abnormality and discuss possible pathophysiologic reasons for the abnormality.
o Look at the abnormality on a holistic basis.
o How does this abnormality impact the other areas of the patient's life, especially those areas discussed in this course?
o Discuss the client's stress and coping mechanisms.
o Are they healthy?
o What improvements could be made?
Part C: Create a teaching plan that addresses the client holistically by applying the assessment data you have analyzed.
o Describe at least one client goal for each of the categories (physical, psychological, social, cultural, developmental, and spiritual).
o How will you teach the client about the goal?
o How will you evaluate your teaching?
Part D: Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for your patient teaching.
o You should have at least six slides (one for each type of goal - physical, psychological, social, cultural, developmental, and spiritual), in addition to the title slide, objective slide, and references slide.
o Be sure to have at least one scholarly source in the PPT.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the homework, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.