代写1810NRS: Health Assessment
 
Introduction:
Knowledge of health assessment is essential to a nurse’s role in promoting health, preventing illness, and caring for others.
 
Aims:
To enable you to:
1.    Understand the purpose of conducting a health assessment;
2.    consider how a health assessment might be conducted differently depending on the setting and age of the patient / client;
3.    further develop the written communication skills critical to professional practice.
 
INSTRUCTIONS:
Prepare an essay using scholarly literature that:
1.    Defines the term health assessment and briefly describes the major components of a health assessment;
2.    Discusses the purpose of a health assessment from a nursing perspective;
3.    Discuss in your own opinion how you think a health assessment might be conducted differently in TWO of the following situations:
o    With a child in a community setting (i.e. GP practice, well-baby clinic);
o    With an adult in a hospital;
o    With an elderly person in an aged care facility.
 
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Your essay must:
·         Utilise at least five different scholarly sources (i.e. journal articles, books, government body reports, etc.) published in the past five years. Two of the sources must be journal articles.
·         Be no more than 1200 words in length. See HERBIE resources on the course site for assistance with managing word count.
·         Include an introduction, a main content area (also called body) and a conclusion. Table 1: Suggested Use of Word Count will assist you to structure your essay.
·         Be written in the third person, except when you discuss in your own opinion how you think a health assessment might be conducted differently in two situations. You may use first person “I” in this section.
·         Include in-text citations within the essay, and include a reference list at the end of the essay. The reference list should include all literature cited in the essay. The in-text citations are included in the word count. The reference list is NOT included in the word count.
 
 
·         Be formatted using the rules found in the SONM Writing & Referencing Guide: https://sites.google.com/a/griffith.edu.au/nursing-writing-and-referencing-guide/Assignment-Presentation-Formatting-Guidelines
·         Have a standard Griffith University assignment cover sheet attached to the online submission. This cover sheet can be accessed via the SONM Writing & Referencing Guide link above.
 
SUBMISSION
Your essay must be submitted as an Electronic file to the campus-specific Assessment 2 (A2) “final” Turnitin portal available at the course site. You must submit this assessment to be eligible for a passing grade in this course.
 
TABLE 1: SUGGESTED USE OF WORD COUNT

SECTION	CONTENTS OF SECTION	WORD COUNT APPROX.
Introduction	·         Opening paragraph that contextualises the assignment. ·         Identifies the aim of the assignment.	100
Main Content Area (Body)	·         Defines the term health assessment ·         Briefly describes the major components of a health assessment	300
	·         Discusses the purpose of a health assessment from a nursing perspective	400
	·         Discusses, in your own opinion, how you think a health assessment might be conducted differently in TWO of the following situations: o    With a child in a community setting(i.e. GP practice, well-baby clinic); o    With an adult in a hospital; o    With an elderly person in an aged care facility	300
Conclusion	·         Concluding paragraph that summarises the overall argument in the assignment. ·         Does not introduce any new information or references in the conclusion.	100
In-Text Citations and Reference List	·         Uses APA 6thedition to reference all literature within the essay using in-text citations (in-text citations are included in the word count) ·         Uses APA 6th edition to reference all literature in the reference list at the end(Reference list is NOT included in the word count)	In-text citations included in word count

 
 代写1810NRS: Health Assessment