This assignment requires you to interview one person and requires an analysis of your interview experience.

Part I: Interview

Select a patient, a family member, or a friend to interview. Be sure to focus on the interviewee’s experience as a patient, regardless of whom you choose to interview.

Review The Joint Commission resource found in topic materials, which provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using this resource and any other guidelines/examples that you can find, create your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients.

Your spiritual needs assessment survey must include a minimum of five questions that can be answered during the interview. During the interview, document the interviewee’s responses.

The transcript should include the questions asked and the answers provided. Be sure to record the responses during the interview by taking detailed notes. Omit specific names and other personal information through which the interviewee can be determined.

Part II: Analysis

Write a 500-750 word analysis of your interview experience. Be sure to exclude specific names and other personal information from the interview. Instead, provide demographics such as sex, age, ethnicity, and religion. Include the following in your response:

1. What went well?
2. Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges?
3. How can this tool assist you in providing appropriate interventions to meet the needs of your patient?
4. Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee? Explain your answer with examples.

Submit both the transcript of the interview and the analysis of your results. This should be submitted as one document. The interview transcript does not figure into the word count.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not 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 Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

This benchmark assignment assesses the following competencies:

CONHCP Program Competencies for the RN-BSN:

5.2: Assess for the spiritual needs and provide appropriate interventions for individuals, families, and groups.

Comment1

While nurses have high turn-over, it is higher with home health aides. During the research for this assignment, the information I was able to find in regards to HHA and home care setting turnover, information is few and far between. The possible impact that this shortage can have on nursing from my perspective: high turnover is more likely to breed less experienced staff with many fleeing the profession. Shortage of home health aide can affect nursing through home health care agencies lacking the ability to provide services for elderly at home “a lack of skilled aides forces individuals to rely more on family, neighbors and friends, and increases the chance that they will end up in the Emergency Room” (Wexler, 2017).

It also increases the likelihood of frequent hospital admission. Having more admissions adds pressure to the ever mounting healthcare cost for the country, and impacts jobs. Services provided by nurse practitioners in the home care setting would be affected with less people at home living in the community. Homecare is still plagued with the same clinical or staff issues that an acute care setting might come across. and when those type of issues take place, then patients’ care suffer, for inpatient and outpatient activities alike.

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The issue that the organization is currently facing is an increase in hospital acquired pressure injuries (HAPI’s). The hospital started noticing an increase trend in HAPIs in patients, which is a big matter of concern. Currently there is a wound care team that does monthly surveys on wounds and prevalence trends. The organization started several initiatives and investigations to see what is going on and possible solutions. During the investigation’s, management found gaps in turning for high risk patients, gaps in documenting on Braden risk assessment, and gaps in care documentation. In this some causes may be that nurses and nurse aides feel overwhelmed with the amount and high acuity of patients they have to care for. I personally saw where the nurses and nurses’ aides looked very busy and overwhelmed with all the tasks they needed to complete.

One implication of nursing is for them to involve clinical leadership in a way that leadership can see what the staff goes through and why there are gaps in turning and documentation. One journal article stated that by using positive clinical leadership to support a culture of pressure injury prevention. In the article it states that pressure injury prevention. In the article it states that pressure injury rounds were done by leadership and they looked at trends on equipment being used, how the ward feels about their trend, what the ward would like more help with, and look around the ward including review of the equipment and clinical assessments. The results were that the rounds led to safety huddles focused on skin topics (Sage & Tudor, 2017)>

When you critically evaluate a study, you must decide whether you agree or disagree with the researcher’s theoretical framework (the underlying assumption or theory that supported the formation of the hypothesis and the development of the research design). The following scenarios have two possible hypotheses, each driven by a different theory. Choose one scenario and one hypothesis from that scenario. Identify your personal assumptions about this hypothesis and choose a nursing theory to support your assumptions. You may use information from http://www.nursing-theory.org/theories-and-models/ to help you. Defend your answer. 

Scenario 1: A patient with chronic back pain requests a narcotic prescription.

1. Hypothesis: In patients with chronic back pain not caused by injury, what is the effect of eight weeks of physical therapy compared to oral narcotic medication on the patients’ perception of pain?

Week 2 Topic /Mar

Looking further at the “what” in Figure 1-6 and answer any one of the following questions:

o Discuss at least three competencies/strategies that you have used effectively.

Become knowledgeable about issues- I try to stay abreast on current issues through reading nursing journals and following politically based nursing articles online. Both sources have offered me valuable information about current nursing policies and trends.  Join Influential groups- I am part of the ANA (American Nurses Association).“The “ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and lobbying Congress and the regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public” (American Journal of Nursing, 2006). Through groups such as the ANA, nurses can make an impact on political processes. Through this groups meetings, journals, and website nurses can stay up to date on current events in nursing.  Make campaign donations- Through the ANA and my own research I have and will continue to make campaign donations to campaigns that support my position in nursing. Making donations to campaigns allows me a way to support individuals or groups who are reaching the public and public officials on a large scale.