Nursing
Adapting Nursing role
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this discussion is to consider how individual factors can impact the health assessment. These factors include but are not limited to age, gender, mental health, literacy, disability, and culture. Students will discuss the impact of individual factors on the assessment and then collaborate on strategies to adapt the environment and assessment techniques to best facilitate the provider-patient relationship and data collection.
**PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING:
Scholarly sources include current peer-reviewed sources, practice guidelines from professional organizations, and databases used for clinical decisions making . Your course materials, textbooks, and websites do not count as scholarly sources.
In order to obtain full credit, you must interact on more than three days. Posting your initial post and each peer post on a different day for three days total is only an 8/10 for this section of the rubric. An additional post that is substantive and adds to the conversation is required to get 10/10 in this area of the rubric.
A 100 in the discussion means you have exceeded the minimum requirements and the faculty does not have any suggestions for room for improvement for you.
INITIAL POST
Create a patient who has presented to the office for a health assessment as a new patient. Provide the demographics of the patient and background that includes factors that impact their care.  then discussion how the age and these other individual factors have the potential to impact the provider-patient relationship and the health assessment .
These individual factors may include any factor that has the potential to impact the relationship or the assessment. Examples are age, gender, mental health, literacy, disability, culture, and language.