Week 8 assignement

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.

Assignment Expectations:

· Length: Essay of 1250-1500 words; PP of 6-12 content slides (and include a title, objective, and reference slides - these do not count towards the required content slides)

· Structure: PP as noted above. Essay: Include a title page and reference page in APA format