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Assignment : Practical Nurse

Textbook-The Complete Health History By Caralyn jarvis.

This assignment is divided into three parts. You may choose to work with one partner, or work individually. Please read through all of the instructions before you begin.

Purpose:

To provide the student with an opportunity to practice performing a comprehensive health history on a client. This will be done on an adult of the student's own choosing.

Areas of health concern will be identified to determine health promotion needs in conjunction with the client.

You will be assessed on how you apply an understanding of the following general learning outcomes:

conduct a health history interview of a client

validate and document the findings of the health history

determine health promotion and disease prevention needs requiring client teaching

Instructions:

Part 1 - Interview Preparation:

1. Find a client, with a stable medical health condition, who is willing to participate in your health history assignment and meets the criteria below:

a. an adult aged 16-64 (e.g., friend, family member or peer who is not your partner in this assignment) or,

b. an older adult aged 65-up (e.g., friend, family member)

2. Provide the client with the following background information prior to setting up an interview. It is important to communicate to the client the process and purpose of this interview:

a. no personal identifiers will be recorded on the form (only the client's initials will be recorded)

b. the interview process is private and client's recorded information is confidential

c. the interview may take approximately one hour

d. the purpose of this assignment is to help me (the student) practice collecting health history data from a client

e. if the client feels uncomfortable answering a question, indicate the reason why (if provided), otherwise record the data as ‘client declined' for that question

3. In consultation with your client, decide on a date, time and private location to conduct the interview.

4. Use the Health History Form provided in Moodle for recording the data.

Note: during the interview you may be recording data in handwritten form.

5. Prior to the interview research and prepare appropriate questions for each section. Refer to the Jarvis textbook for sample questions (textbook page numbers are listed in Part 2 of this assignment).

a. type all interview questions in each section of the form so that you are prepared and on topic

b. the quality of your questions will be assessed as part of this assignment

6. If working with a partner, indicate on the Health History Form in each section which person is asking the questions and which person is recording the information.

Both partners are required to lead the interview process by taking turns asking questions and you must distribute the workload evenly, each person taking on 50% of the workload.

7. Make sure you and your partner (if applicable) have a printed copy of the form.

Part 2 - The Interview:

8. Record data in each section listed on the form. If the client indicates that there are ‘no issues' in a section, indicate that response beside the question. If the client was uncomfortable responding to a section, indicate that response beside the question.

All of the following sections must contain questions and assessment data:

a. Biographical Data (only: initials, identified gender, age, birthplace, marital status, occupation, collection date/time), p. 66

b. Health History Information, pp. 67-69

c. Review of Systems, pp. 69-72

d. Cultural and Social Considerations (related to health and health care), p. 69

e. Functional Assessment, p. 72 (if you are choosing an older adult, refer to pp. 77-81 and chapter 31)

f. Perception of Health

9. Conduct the health history interview with your client

10. After collecting the health history data, ask the client the following questions and record it in the Perception of Health section of the form:

a. to describe their perception of their health

b. to identify two primary areas of health concern and ask the client why these areas of concern were identified

11. At the end of the interview, remember to thank your client for his/her participation in this assignment.

Part 3 - Areas of Health Promotion:

12. After the interview has been completed, indicate what two areas you feel should be addressed with health promotion materials/teaching recommendations for the client.

Provide a rationale why you choose the two areas and identify one health promotion material for each area. Record this in the Areas of Health Promotion section of the form.