Community Health Nursing I Discussion Question Discuss the concept of life review What are the goals and benefits of

Community Health Nursing I: 

Discussion Question:

Discuss the concept of life review. What are the goals and benefits of a life review? How is life review similar and different than ordinary remembering?

Your initial posting should be at least 400 words in length and utilize at least one scholarly source other than the textbook. 

Assignment:

Identify an older adult age 65 +, use a 1st and last initial. Execute a therapeutic assessment interview with them for at least two interview sessions assessing their self-identified:

Demographics, life time education and career/employment

Two most significant (positive) times in their lives

What past hardship or loss has the client successfully negotiated in the past?

Two personal strengths

Engage them in identifying what is healthy versus non-healthy coping skills

Inquire of 2 healthy coping skills they have used in the past and/or now

Three (3) pieces of advice they would give to their younger self if they could?

Support the client in taking the Geriatric Depression Scale.pdf

https://classroom.aspen.edu/content/enforced/69956-N492-ALH8-10-12-21-Sect2/Geriatric%20Depression%20Scale.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=IJeZdCjytG1li8yEOqTz1g90T&ou=69956

Support the client in taking the Fulmer SPICES Assessment.pdf

https://classroom.aspen.edu/content/enforced/69956-N492-ALH8-10-12-21-Sect2/Fulmer%20SPICES%20Assessment.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=IJeZdCjytG1li8yEOqTz1g90T&ou=69956

Read  Mini Mental State Exam.pdf and Patient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf

https://classroom.aspen.edu/content/enforced/69956-N492-ALH8-10-12-21-Sect2/Mini%20Mental%20State%20Exam.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=IJeZdCjytG1li8yEOqTz1g90T&ou=69956

https://classroom.aspen.edu/content/enforced/69956-N492-ALH8-10-12-21-Sect2/Patient_Stress_Questionnaire.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=IJeZdCjytG1li8yEOqTz1g90T&ou=69956

Read Hall, Hall, and Chapman Article.pdf

https://classroom.aspen.edu/content/enforced/69956-N492-ALH8-10-12-21-Sect2/Hall%2c%20Hall%2c%20and%20Chapman%20Article.pdf?_&d2lSessionVal=IJeZdCjytG1li8yEOqTz1g90T&ou=69956

Report the findings from the Geriatric Depression Scale, Fulmer Spices, Patient Stress Questionnaire, and the Mini-Mental Status Exam

Discuss your older adult’s level of ego integrity vs. despair as described by psychoanalyst Erik Erikson. If you had to rate them on a scale of 1-10, with 1 representing a full state of despair and 10 representing full ego integrity, what rating would you give your older adult?

Describe at least two nursing diagnoses for this client.  

Create a plan of care for the client to include at least three nursing goals with two nursing interventions each.

The assignment should be written in an APA-formatted essay. The essay should be at least 1500 words in length and include at least two scholarly sources other than provided materials.

Record the time you spend interviewing the client and writing the assessment report as practice experience hours in Project Concert as ‘Older Adult Interview’ for Module 2. (Discussion Board work does not apply). It is expected to take you between 2-4 hours. Access Project Concert. Minimum required hours must be entered into Project Concert for Module 2. Some states/entities require hour logs for certification or employment. It is the student’s professional responsibility to ensure all hours are entered correctly in order to meet these requirements. Please see the Project Concert directions document in the Learning Materials on how to enter hours.