N495 Health Assessment
Module 1 Discussion
Why is there increasing emphasis on nutrition and exercise for middle aged and aging families? Why is it more significant than 30 years ago?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 2 Discussion
The CDC and Healthy People 2020 continue to educate on the importance, the improved ease of access and insurance coverage for screenings and vaccinations. It is the responsibility of nurses to engage our aging adults in self-advocating for services that benefit the individual and community health. How can you, as a registered nurse, impact older adults to encourage routine vaccination? What impact does this have on the community as a whole?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 3 Discussion
After reviewing the Psychosocial Care of the Elderly source found in course resources, discuss surprising facts about the psychosocial care of the aging. Did you originally consider any of these as myths, when in reality they are based on evidence? How can nurses influence attitudes among caregivers and the public about aging?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 4 Discussion
Discuss your personal self-assessment findings. Include the following: perceived barriers to achieving the national recommended goals for physical activity as well as strategies for maintenance of already achieved goals or for future achievement of yet to be reached goals and responses to self-reflection questions in module description above. Reflect on a physical activity you have always wished to engage in but have never have. What creative strategies can you implement to remove the barriers so that you can now do so?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 5 Discussion
As nurses, we need to find effective ways to handle our stress. Explain how stress has affected you personally. How do you manage stress in your life? Are there other activities you could incorporate into daily routine to reduce stress?
 
 
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 6 Discussion
As nurses we complete physical assessment on a routine basis, but typically these are focused assessments. Which components of the head-to-toe physical assessment are not routine for you (ones you do not use on a regular basis)? Why is it important for you to still be familiar with these components and skilled at completing them?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 7 Discussion
Identify potential hazards of hospitalization for all older adult patients (including immobility, delirium, medication side effects, malnutrition, pressure ulcers, procedures, peri- and postoperative periods, and hospital-acquired infections) and identify potential prevention strategies.
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 8 Discussion
In general, what findings in the physical assessment of a healthy older adult do you expect to be different than that of a healthy 35-year-old?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 1 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Aging Adult Case Study
A 68-year-old client lives alone and is independent with all ADLs, has no restrictions for mobility, and is competent, and oriented x4. The client is on a fixed income, but has enough to manage a modest lifestyle. The client has family and social supports but is very independent and is proud of her self-reliance. The client’s height is 5’ 6”, weight is 210 lb. / 95.25 kg.
Please answer the following:
What is the client’s BMI?
Identify what screening tools you would use to assess nutritional and exercise knowledge, and why?
Identify two client outcomes that are reasonable, measurable and realistic
Identify 3 nursing interventions for each client outcome and give rationales
Identify what weakness in the client’s life and supports may be impacting the client’s activity and diet?
What referrals would you make and why?
Identify your references in APA format. Use references not just opinion.
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 2 Assignment 
Assignment Description
Infographic
Choose one older adult community population and create an infographic on a topic of preventative screenings or vaccines for this population. You may choose to focus on one specific preventative screening (like colonoscopy) or one specific vaccine (like pneumovax).  You will create a one page infographic and then write an essay on the topic you chose. 
View websites on How to create Infographics:
*http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/34223/5-Infographics-to-Teach-You-How-to-Easily-Create-Infographics-in-PowerPoint-TEMPLATES.aspx
*http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/free-ppt-infographic-templates-designs-ht
Submit an 8 X 11.5 color (one page Word or pdf. document) infographic on the importance of one of the concepts found in one of the assigned websites.
Include a detailed description of the infographic and the APA references in an APA-formatted essay.
The description part of the essay assignment should be written in an APA-formatted essay. The essay should be at least 750 words in length and include at least two scholarly sources other than provided materials.
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 3 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Ego Integrity Presentation
Imagine you are working as a charge nurse in an assisted living facility. Your unit houses twenty older adults. The residents of this unit are cognitively functional without evidence of cognitive decline. The residents are elderly and do require varying degrees of physical assistance with ADLs. Create a PowerPoint outlining strategies you can incorporate in the assisted living facility to promote ego integrity for your residents. What group and individual activities can you incorporate?
 
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 4 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Physical Activity Resource Guide
After having read the websites cited in the introduction and read your peers posts develop an out of the box physical activity resource guide (brochure). Imagine that your peers all live in the same general locale. Research fun and unusual but accessible activities that will meet the physical activity goals of you and your peers. Your resource guide should have a minimum of 6 different activities. Each entry should contain a description of the activity, costs, when and where, contact person, website or copy of the listing location. Feel free to include photos or graphics. You may submit your resource guide in PowerPoint, pdf, Word or Microsoft publisher format.
Remember to think out of the box-search for activities on Living Social, Groupon, Department of Recreation and Parks brochures, club and meetings sections of the newspaper, bulletin boards in your favorite neighborhood coffee shop or grocery store, etc.
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 5 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Stress and Nursing Practice
Describe the case that defined you as a nurse. What happened, how were you involved? How does this case still affect you and your practice? What steps have you taken to overcome the stress of this event? (Remember to protect patient privacy).
Explain the importance of debriefings. Are they used in your workplace? If a debriding would happen who would be involved, what would be discussed, who would lead the debriefing, where would it take place? Are debriefing possible at your workplace and would they help nurses deal with stress?
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 6 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Head-to-Toe Physical Health Assessment
You will use the course text to guide you in completion of a head to toe assessment. A comprehensive health assessment allows an overall view of your patient’s health status. As a registered nurse you must possess the knowledge and tools to promote a healthy and productive lifestyle.
For this task, you will record a 15 min or less video of yourself completing a physical health assessment on a family member or friend (do not use a patient in a healthcare setting or a child under 18). You will use the head to toe assessment guide found in this module’s learning resources to record your findings. You will upload your video and a copy of the assessment guide for completion of this assignment.
Below are instructions on how to upload your video to Youtube:
Sign in/Sign Up to YouTube. (if you have a Gmail Account you can use that information for your Youtube Channel)
At the top of the page, click Upload.
Select Upload video.
Before you start uploading the video, you can choose the video privacy settings.
Select the video you’d like to upload from your computer. You can also import a video from Google Photos.
As the video is uploading, you can edit both the basic information and the advanced settings of the video and decide if you want to notify subscribers (if you uncheck this option, no communication will be shared with your subscribers). Partners will also be able to adjust their Monetization settings. You can have a title up to 100 characters and a description up to 5,000 characters.
Click Publish to finish uploading a public video to YouTube. If you set the video privacy setting to Private or Unlisted, just click Done to finish the upload or click Share to privately share your video.
If you haven’t clicked Publish, your video won’t be viewable by other people. You can always publish your video at a later time in your Video Manager.
Once your video is successfully Uploaded copy the link to a Microsoft Word Document and save it. Submit the document into the Dropbox and notify your instructor once it is successfully Uploaded.
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 7 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Emergency Plan for the Older Adult
Locate the American Red Cross in your area: http://www.redcross.org/ or in person.
Identify what is necessary for emergency supplies to have on hand for a healthy older adult. Consider visiting with an older family member or friend to identify specific needs for this older adult (reasonable for this person)
 Assist the older adult (OA) in creating their Personal Emergency Plan and contacts
 Describe what the OA was surprised to need or what they seemed to predict on their own
 Why is this important for OA singles or couples who live independently without services?
 Complete at least two slides for each bullet point with a total of 10 slides
 
N495 Health Assessment
Module 8 Assignment  
Assignment Description
Signature Assignment Title: The Holistic Patient Assessment
Part 1: 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:
Health History
Physiological Assessment
Psychological Assessment
Social Assessment
Cultural Assessment
Developmental Assessment
Spiritual Assessment
Part 2: Interpret the findings in your holistic health assessment data according to pathophysiologic disease states. 
Choose one physiologic abnormality and discuss possible pathophysiologic reasons for the abnormality. 
Look at the abnormality on a holistic basis. 
How does this abnormality impact the other areas of the patient’s life, especially those areas discussed in this course?
Discuss the client’s stress and coping mechanisms. 
Are they healthy? 
What improvements could be made?
Part 3: Create a teaching plan that addresses the client holistically by applying the assessment data you have analyzed. 
Describe at least one client goal for each of the categories (physical, psychological, social, cultural, developmental, and spiritual).
How will you teach the client about the goal? 
How will you evaluate your teaching? 
Part 4: Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for your patient teaching. 
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. 
Please be sure to have at least one scholarly source in the PPT.