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NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators

Week 2 Assignment

Comprehensive Health History Taking

Select one patient (neighbor, family, or friend) and write-up their comprehensive health history. Include the following variables:

Identifying data.

Past medical history.

Health status, perceived barriers, and support.

Chief complaint (CC).

History of present illness (HPI).

Family and/or social history (PFSH).

Focused review of systems (ROS).

Identify age, spiritual values, and cultural variables that were considered and how these variables influenced your interviews or health history.

In a 1,000-1,250-word essay, summarize effective interview techniques for collecting a patient's health history. Include the following:

Address how to elicit the patient's interpretation of their health status, their perceived barriers, and support.

Critique the effectiveness of several history taking techniques with rationale from the readings.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators

Week 3 Assignment

Benchmark - Critique of Last Physical Assessment

Critique your last physical assessment on the basis of health promotion, health prevention, and comfort for you as the patient. Write a 750–1,000-word paper that addresses the following questions:

Did the provider evaluate lifestyle, nutrition, and exercise?

Did the provider explain the side effects of your medication?

Was there an agreement on the plan of care?

What was the environment like? Welcoming, comfortable, dirty, clean?

Did the provider answer your questions and perform a complete health history?

Was the physical assessment complete and correct? (Did the provider listen to your lung sounds through clothing?)

Did the provider see you in your street clothes or in a patient gown?

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators

Week 4 Assignment

CLC - Critique a Health Assessment Brochure

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

Find a health education brochure or other printed material from the Internet, a pharmacy, or a provider office. This material must have been written for the public and should include information about health conditions, causes, and methods of prevention and or treatment for the condition. Printed material can be found from well-known organizations such as the American Dietetic Association, American Heart Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, American Academy of Family Practice Physicians, etc.

Critique the printed health education material and write a letter to the company who produced the brochure, pointing out issues of accuracy, reading level, presentation, and how it influences the public.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators

Week 5 Assignment

Focused Assessment

Document a focused history, physical exam, nursing diagnoses, and nursing process of a case study from NUR-641E: Advanced Pathophysiology and Pharmacology for Nurse Educators and compare the differences with a complete assessment.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.

Case Study

A 22-year-old woman reports being “sick with the flu” for the past 8 days. She is vomiting several times every day, having difficulty keeping liquids or food down, and has been using more than the recommended dose of antacids in an attempt to calm the nausea. She has become severely dehydrated. After fainting at home, she was taken to a local hospital. An arterial blood gas sample was drawn and then an IV was placed to help rehydrate her. The arterial blood gas revealed the following:

Test Result Normal levels

pH 7.5 7.35 – 7.45

PaCO₂ 40 mm Hg 35-45 mm Hg

PaO₂ 95 mm Hg 80-100 mm Hg

SaO₂ 97% 95-100%

HCO₃- 32 meq/liter 22-26 meq/liter

How would you classify the patient’s acid-base disturbance and explain why?

Given the case study, what are the possible factors causing this acid-base disturbance? Explain the pathophysiology created by these factors.

How would the renal and respiratory systems try to compensate for this acid-base disturbance?

What pharmacologic intervention is commonly used to correct this acid-base disturbance? Describe the pharmacological actions.

Describe the educational needs for this patient and what your approach will be.

NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators

Week 6 Assignment

Spiritual Assessment

Investigate at least two different spiritual assessment tools and analyze the ease of use and comprehensiveness of the data collected. Report on the validity and reliability of the tool. Explain how the spiritual assessment would be used in a health assessment.

Write a 1,000–1,250-word paper on the items listed above. Include at least four professional references excluding your texts.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators

Week 8 Assignment

CLC - Presentation of Health Risk Assessment

This is a Collaborative Learning Community (CLC) assignment.

Investigate a health risk assessment tool for one of the following: (dietary, mental health, home health, depression, cultural competency, pain, nutrition, environmental, newborn, child, elderly, women and heart disease, osteoporosis, skin cancer, breast cancer, stroke, MI, childhood asthma, and child's healthy lifestyle).

Have 10 individuals complete the health risk assessment tool. Analyze the reliability and validity, and reading level of the tool. Present findings in a PowerPoint presentation. Teams must create 10-15 slides with speaker's notes.

APA style is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are not required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite.