Elder Health Assessment And Community Experience

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Well Elder Health Assessment and Community Experience: Please copy instructions below on a document and use APA to complete this assignment. Submit in the drop-box

Purpose:

The purpose of this project is to provide an observational experience for the student in the community that meets the needs of the well-elderly and to allow the student a personal insight into the normal aging changes. Nurses need exposure to well-elderly clients to assess all dimensions of health. To evaluate any specific needs, to evaluate what community resources are available. And to describe the nursing practice implications appropriate to the well-elderly client.

Objectives:

Upon completion of the experience the assignment, the nursing student will be able to:

  • Evaluate a well-elderly client’s health status in all dimensions of health: physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and sexual.
  • Describe the scope of services available within a specific community providing services to older adults by differentiating among services that are health-promoting, health maintaining, and health restoring.
  • Using Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, identify one primary health strength, one primary health need, and document one nursing implication needed to maintain and/or strengthen each one.
  • Delineate appropriate nursing implications for practice that meet well-elderly client’s needs.
  • Evaluate the well elderly client’s needs in relation to available resources.
  • Identify one evidence-based content area that will be helpful in your role as the RN with the geriatric client.

Directions for Assignment:

  • Select an older adult (65 years or older) that is currently in the community you have been assigned and is independent in their living arrangements. The person needs to be able and willing to answer questions.
  • Also, plan to talk with a community agency representative to get the necessary information for your community agency assessment.
  • Complete the following assessment. You are interested in the well elders perspective of health.

No physical examination is done.  At the end of each subsection, complete the evaluation portion.

4)            Summarize your finds on the summative evaluation sheet.

5)            Wear professional street clothes (no jeans), and your MPI name tag. Follow dress code guidelines. Report to your assigned placement for one day of clinical experience.

Grading criteria:

  1. You must achieve competency on this project. Points are calculated to determine if you receive 11.25/15 points. You need 75% of the points to achieve competency.  You have two chances to achieve competency. This is a double-starred criterion on your clinical evaluation tool.

Instructional Resource: http://consultgerirn.org/topics/age_related_changes/

NUR 230: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

Well Elder Health Assessment and Community Experience

Student Name: ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­____________________________________________

Instructions to cover with the participant:

  1. First, establish your relationship with introductions.
  2. Review the purpose of the interview and the project.
  3. Review the outcome to be achieved.
  4. Share the tool, with the participant prior to another interview.
  5. Clarify that the process is voluntary.
  6. All information is confidential and will only be shared with your instructor via a written tool without any participant name identification. However, if the participant shares any information regarding suicidal thoughts or aspects of abuse. You will need to report such information together to a representative of the community.
  7. The participant has the right to refuse to answer any question.

Well-Elder Demographics:

Age: _________  Sex: _________   Occupation: __________________________

Health Perception and Health Management (½ point)

1a)    How would you describe your health status during the past year?

1b)    How would you describe your health status during the past 5 years?

  • What do you do to maintain your health?
  • In your life, what priority does health play?
  • In your life, what is more, important than health?
  • What is your top health concern currently?

NURSING EVALUATION:  IN 5 SENTENCES OR LESS, HOW WOULD YOU RATE AND DESCRIBE THIS OLDER ADULT CURRENT HEALTH STATUS?  USE THE SCALE OF 1 AS POOR AND 5 AS EXCELLENT.

Physical Health Exercise (½ point)

  • What do you do for exercise?
  • How often do you exercise?
  • How long do you exercise?
  • Would you say that you are an inactive, somewhat active, or active person?
  • Is this degree of activity a change for you? If yes, since when and why?
  • Are you satisfied with your level of activity (are you able to do what you need and what you like to do)?

NURSING EVALUATION:  IN 5 SENTENCES OR LESS, HOW WOULD YOU RATE AND DESCRIBE THIS OLDER ADULT ACTIVITY/EXERCISE STATUS?  USE THE SCALE OF 1 IS INACTIVE AND 5 IS ACTIVE.