Life Transitions During Acute Illness

Description

Follow the Exemplary level in the rubric Purpose of Assignment: To explore understanding of a family’s transition in role changes through use of the interview technique.

Advancement of skills in utilizing the interview process to gather data.

Describe a family in acute life transition from the client and care giver roles, considering cultural influences and social justice inequities. Evaluation of insights gained as a nurse understanding perspectives of individual and family during a family’s ability to move through a life changing transition.

The Student will:

1) Choose a family other than your own who is experiencing an acute transition both a and b.

a) The family who experienced the unexpected death of an immediate household family member in the past year.

b) The family will be from a culture different than your own. (e.g. ethnicity, religious, socio-economic, gender, urban or rural etc.).

2) Reflect upon the following topics while interviewing the family members: a) Baseline health and functioning considering how the acute event changed the dynamics of the family assimilation of physical changes. b) Emotional, developmental, socioeconomic, cultural, spiritual, and environmental factors on the adaptive response of the family.

3) Compose a formal paper using concise communication in APA format including a title page, introduction, headers, headings, conclusion and reference page. The body of the paper should be 3-4 pages (this does not include the title or reference pages). This paper body will not be read or graded past 4 1/2 pages.

4) Follow the Rubric to report findings. Collect Data: (please use the numbered topics as headings to guide your paper-do not add)

1) Family Structure and Demographics a) Who lives in the home and their ages? Identify the patient. (Remember HIPAA). Who is present for the interview? b) Educational level, occupation, socioeconomic status, and geographic area of interviewee. Consider social inequities of vulnerable populations that may be present.

2) Cultural Influence – Reference at least one journal article describing this culture and “life transition” during illness. a) Describe background information about the culture and health care beliefs of the family. Do they follow the traditional culture? b) Compare and contrast family beliefs; how they are different or similar to your own culture. (This paper is merely to communicate information and compare cultural beliefs and practices about health care and not to argue a point.)

3) Acute illness and Accepting the Transition a) Discuss holistically the health history genetics and genomics of the illness, and perception of health related to culture and environment and how these impacted the Treatment Options or Death Story.