Overview
For this Performance Task Assessment, you will analyze three challenging situations with patients across the lifespan for the professional nurse in gathering a detailed health history. You will complete one template document for the three examples. Your patients—including a parent with a young child—will be avatars in Mursion interactive scenarios.
Instructions
To complete this Assessment, do the following:
Be sure to adhere to the indicated Assignment length.
Download the Health History Challenges Template Word document.
Download the Academic Writing Expectations Checklist to review prior to submitting your Assessment.
Before submitting your Assessment, carefully review the rubric. This is the same rubric the Faculty Instructor will use to evaluate your submission and it provides detailed criteria describing how to achieve or master the Competency. Many students find that understanding the requirements of the Assessment and the rubric criteria help them direct their focus and use their time most productively.
Important Information on Interpreting the Assessment Rubric (click to expand)
Achievement vs. Mastery of the Competency
Mastery of this Competency means that 80% or more of the rows have been assessed as Exceeds Expectations and no rows have been assessed as Does Not Meet Expectations.
Achievement of this Competency means that all rows are assessed at Meets Expectations or above (but lower than the 80% threshold required for Mastery).
Assessment of Individual Rubric Rows
In order to achieve Meets Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in that row. This means that you have addressed all required elements to the required level of quantity and/or quality.
In order to achieve Exceeds Expectations for a particular row of the rubric, you must have adequately completed all criteria in the row, and in addition, your response must reflect a depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise. Examples of this include—but are not limited to—the following:
You provide additional, specific, and/or particularly relevant examples to illustrate points made.
You seamlessly incorporate your original thoughts and diverse, credible, and relevant academic sources, when applicable, to express your viewpoint or develop a persuasive argument.
You demonstrate a deeper understanding of the subject that draws from discipline-specific knowledge and theory and incorporates the viewpoints of a diverse set of business and management thought leaders.
You draw additional connections between multiple, complex topics to support your explanations.
You are able to apply your knowledge in unique, creative, and/or innovative ways.
You thoroughly break down concepts into simpler parts and use your understanding of business to make connections.
Your analysis is insightful and original.
You design processes, products, and/or solutions that are creative, high-quality, and innovative.
You consider diverse perspectives and relevant social, ethical, and business-related issues when proposing new ideas or formulating judgments.
All submissions must follow the conventions of scholarly writing. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.
This Assessment requires submission of one completed template document. Save this file as XH3003_firstinitial_lastname (for example, XH3003_J_Smith).
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When Taking a Health History Is a Challenge
Recall some of your most challenging patients for gathering a health history. If you include a crying young child with a distracted parent, a moody adolescent, or an older adult with perhaps something to hide—or maybe all three—get ready to revisit those patients for this Assessment. The setting is Neighborhood Clinic, a fictional community health center. The avatar clinic director, Asha Gill, will introduce and conclude each scenario. You will engage with the following avatar patients:
Archie, age 7, and Gabriel Moore, his father, who are making a first visit to the clinic because a very miserable Archie is sick
Jasmine Walker, age 14, at the clinic for a high school physical but without her mother, who has previously accompanied her to appointments
Colleen Hart, age 76, whose stepson may join the appointment, much to her resistance
Each scenario presents a distinct situation for the professional nurse and involves applying emotional intelligence and knowledge of health history information to gather for each patient.
To prepare:
Access the Health History Challenges template document and review the requirements of this Assessment.
View the video of each scenario as many times as you need. You are encouraged to take notes for details to support your analysis of each scenario. Keep these questions in mind as you view and analyze each scenario:
What health history information is needed?
What questions would you ask to obtain it?
How would you demonstrate emotional intelligence to win trust?
What may be presenting as a specific problem or need?
Compete the Assessment based on the interactive media, other Learning Resources, and any additional resources you identify.
To complete the Competency Assessment:
Use the Health History Challenges template document to record your responses for each scenario. Base your responses on the Mursion interactive media, Learning Resources, and other resources you identify to support your responses to the following questions. All responses should have evidence cited to support statements made in your document. Your submitted document should be 4–5 pages plus a reference page. You should address the following:
Click each of the items below for more information on this Assessment.
Scenario 1: Health History for a Young Child
Archie, age 7, and his father, Gabriel Moore
Analyze Scenario 1 for the specific challenges presented in gathering a patient health history of a young child.
What communication skills does a nurse need in this situation with a parent and young child? Include specific examples based on emotional intelligence.
Explain your specific goals with this parent and child in terms of obtaining a health history.
What information would be a priority to obtain for a health history of this child, and why?
Thinking about the situation in the examining room at the end of Scenario 1, what would be your next steps to get the information you need to make a health assessment of this child? Explain your reasoning.
Scenario 2: Health History for an Adolescent
Jasmine Walker, age 14
Analyze Scenario 2 for the specific challenges presented in gathering a patient health history.
What communication skills does a nurse need in this situation with an adolescent? Include specific examples based on emotional intelligence.
Explain your specific goals with this adolescent in terms of obtaining a health history.
What information would be a priority to obtain, and why?
Thinking about the situation in the examining room at the end of Scenario 2, what would be your next steps to get the information you need to make a health assessment of this adolescent? Explain your reasoning.
Scenario 3: Health History for an Older Adult
Colleen Hart, age 76
Analyze Scenario 3 for the specific challenges presented in gathering a patient health history.
What communication skills does a nurse need in this situation with an older adult? Include specific examples based on emotional intelligence.
Explain your specific goals with this older adult in terms of obtaining a health history.
What information would be a priority to obtain, and why?
What information would be a priority to obtain from the adult stepson if he joined the appointment, and why?
Thinking about the situation in the examining room at the end of Scenario 3, what would be your next steps to get the information you need to make a health assessment of this older adult? Explain your reasoning.