Home Safety Assessment

It is important to identify health issues or concerns that may impact an individual or family in any setting.  This identification can help the nurse to address health promotion and disease prevention.

To complete this activity, you must complete the Family Support Assessment activity.  Click on Enter Sentinel City®.  Once in the city, click on the map to locate the apartment dwelling in Nightingale Square.  Approach the door next to the laundromat and enter the apartment.  Here you will complete the Home Safety Assessment by noting any health, safety, and environmental hazards in the apartment.  Note as many of the hazards that you observe.  Select and prioritize the top two hazards for health, safety, and environmental areas for a total of six hazards that the healthcare professional should address first:

1. #1 = most serious hazard-life threatening
2. #2 = second most important-potential to affect the most people or cause long-term injury

Try to avoid prioritizing the same hazard in multiple categories.  Provide an evidence-based rationale and a recommendation for addressing the top two hazards in each category.  Click the “Family Support Assessment” tab at the top of the screen and review the information on the form.

Reading and Resources

Chapter 16 pages 297-316, Chapter 23 pages 395-404, Chapter 20 pages 367-375, Chapter 26 pages 439-447 in Fundamentals of Case Management Practice.

Review clinical guidelines of the AHRQ

Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations

Evidence-based research provides the basis for sound clinical practice guidelines and recommendations. The datab…

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**Family Support Assessment Required

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3 postsRe: Topic 2 DQ 2

Assessment is the systematic basis for making inferences about the learning and development of individuals. Physical assessment of both child and adult includes detailed examination using the four formats: inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Privacy must be maintained to optimize the assessment. Also, questions are asked to obtain the medical and surgical history for both child and adult, but the difference is that information is obtained directly from the adult while the parents help in that of a child who cannot completely give detailed information’s. Objective and specific data of the child include the perinatal period, birth of the child, and developmental milestones that have been achieved. Immunization history is very important for both child and adult. (Angelina 2018)

During the assessment, the nurse will ask questions, give education on any abnormality found and empathize. Where the nurse found okay, she will give praises as this is a moral booster to both child, adult, and care givers. The nurse will also offer instructions according to the age of her patient and level of comprehension. She may need to use simple words instead of medical jargons. (Faustina 2017)

In communicating with the older adult, the nurse will have to tune up her voice for clarity but for children, the nurse will speak slowly, clearly and utilize simple vocabulary. Facial expressions, gestures and eye contact will help the nurse communicate with people with hearing impairments and even people who are deaf as they can lip read and understand. There may be the need to use interpreter. (Bena 2017)

The strategies the nurse will use to encourage engagement is by active listening, repeating words for clarification, making sure that the language spoken is understood by parties concerned. The patient may be hungry and thirsty, check the diet order. Offer nourishment if patient is on diet if not, offer explanations. This will make the patient relax, pay attention, and answer your questions. Choice toys are offered to babies to keep them calm. (Melissa 2017)

Response to the above posting using 200-300 APA format with references to support the discussion

Compare the physical assessment of a child to that of an adult. In addition to describing the similar/different aspects of the physical assessment, explain how the nurse would offer instruction during the assessment, how communication would be adapted to offer explanations, and what strategies the nurse would use to encourage engagement.

 Formulate a PICOT statement for your capstone project. (Childhood Obesity)

A PICOT starts with a designated patient population in a particular clinical area and identifies clinical problems or issues that arise from clinical care. The intervention should be an independent, specified nursing change intervention. The intervention cannot require a provider prescription. Include a comparison to a patient population not currently receiving the intervention, and specify the timeframe needed to implement the change process.

Formulate a PICOT statement using the PICOT format provided in the assigned readings. The PICOT statement will provide a framework for your capstone project.

In a paper of 750 -1000 words, clearly identify the clinical problem and how it can result in a positive patient outcome.

Make sure to address the following on the PICOT statement:

1. Evidence-Based Solution
2. Nursing Intervention
3. Patient Care
4. Health Care Agency
5. Nursing Practice

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

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