This assignment requires you to interview one person and requires an analysis of your interview experience.

Part I: Interview

Select a patient, a family member, or a friend to interview. Be sure to focus on the interviewee’s experience as a patient, regardless of whom you choose to interview.

Review The Joint Commission resource found in topic materials, which provides some guidelines for creating spiritual assessment tools for evaluating the spiritual needs of patients. Using this resource and any other guidelines/examples that you can find, create your own tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients.

Your spiritual needs assessment survey must include a minimum of five questions that can be answered during the interview. During the interview, document the interviewee’s responses.

The transcript should include the questions asked and the answers provided. Be sure to record the responses during the interview by taking detailed notes. Omit specific names and other personal information through which the interviewee can be determined.

Part II: Analysis

Write a 500-750 word analysis of your interview experience. Be sure to exclude specific names and other personal information from the interview. Instead, provide demographics such as sex, age, ethnicity, and religion. Include the following in your response:

1. What went well?
2. Were there any barriers or challenges that inhibited your ability to complete the assessment tool? How would you address these in the future or change your assessment to better address these challenges?
3. How can this tool assist you in providing appropriate interventions to meet the needs of your patient?
4. Did you discover that illness and stress amplified the spiritual concern and needs of your interviewee? Explain your answer with examples.

Submit both the transcript of the interview and the analysis of your results. This should be submitted as one document. The interview transcript does not figure into the word count.

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

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to Turnitin. Please refer to the directions in the Student Success Center.

This benchmark assignment assesses the following competencies:

CONHCP Program Competencies for the RN-BSN:

5.2: Assess for the spiritual needs and provide appropriate interventions for individuals, families, and groups.

RUBRIC:

Tool for Assessing the Spiritual Needs of Patients CONHCP: 5.2

Tool for assessing the spiritual needs of patients is present and focuses on experiences of patients. The tool uses effective methods for gathering data that produces the results intended. A clear transcript of the interview is provided.

Analysis of Interview Experience

An analysis of the interview experience is included and addresses all of the points included in the assignment instructions. The analysis shows a deep understanding of the connections.

Thesis Development and Purpose

Thesis and/or main claim are comprehensive. The essence of the paper is contained within the thesis. Thesis statement makes the purpose of the paper clear.

Argument Logic and Construction

Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.

Mechanics of Writing (includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, language use)

Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.

Paper Format (use of appropriate style for the major and assignment)

All format elements are correct.

Documentation of Sources (citations, footnotes, references, bibliography, etc., as appropriate to assignment and style)

Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.

QUESTIONS

• Who or what provides the patient with strength and hope?
• Does the patient use prayer in their life?
• How does the patient express their spirituality?
• How would the patient describe their philosophy of life?
• What type of spiritual/religious support does the patient desire?
• What is the name of the patient’s clergy, ministers, chaplains, pastor, rabbi?
• What does suffering mean to the patient?
• What does dying mean to the patient?
• What are the patient’s spiritual goals?
• Is there a role of church/synagogue in the patient’s life?
• How does your faith help the patient cope with illness?
• How does the patient keep going day after day?
• What helps the patient get through this health care experience?
• How has illness affected the patient and his/her family?

DNP Project – Final Phase – Weekly discussion

Week 2 – Data Analysis (graded)

The discussion for this week is focused on data analysis. Describe your plans for data analysis. How will descriptive statistics assist you in evaluating your outcome? Does your question require looking at the difference between two (or more) groups? What statistical test will you use which is consistent with your question and the type of data produced by your evaluation method/tool?

Week 4 – Dissemination (graded)

The discussion for this week is focused on your final plans for dissemination. You have considered this issue when you developed your project proposal but your plans have likely changed. Describe your plan for sharing the results of your project with the stakeholders at your practicum/project setting. Also, describe plans for conference poster or podium presentation and publication. Do you have a specific regional or national conference in mind? Which journal are you considering for submission of your manuscript? Which of these will be most crucial for you to focus on to assure dissemination of your DNP Project results?

Week 5 – Sustainability (graded)

The discussion for this week is focused on sustainability. Will the change that you initiated for your DNP Project be sustained, modified, or discontinued? How is that being determined? What plans have you made for your exit? Will you continue work related to your practice problem? What are your next steps?

Week 6 – Portfolio (graded)

The discussion for this week is focused on the experience of developing a professional portfolio. How do you anticipate using your professional portfolio? As you reflected on your career while developing your professional portfolio, you likely reviewed your strengths and opportunities for growth. Please share anything you are comfortable with as a result of that self-evaluation. Also, share your long-term career goals and your plan for achieving those goals.

Week 7 – Transformation (Required, not graded)

The discussion for this week is focused on your transformation. As you complete your DNP Project final paper and presentation, and your portfolio, share with your instructor and your peers how you have been transformed through your entire DNP program experience.

Compare and contrast a minimum of two middle range theories and discuss potential applications in your specific area of nursing practice. (nurse practitioner working in the hospital setting). 1 page, 2 sources.

I need a 8 page paper. This paper is related to my previous paper and I will provide the paper once you accept this paper. The paper needs to be written in APA format.

For this assignment, you will be further defining your Phenomenon of  Interest within a theoretical and ethical framework.  The same  Phenomenon of Interest (POI) identified in your first written paper  should also be used for this assignment.  You will begin this paper by  providing a concise description of your POI, this information should be a  short summary of information your presented in your first paper.
Next, you will  discuss the Fawcett’s Meta-paradigm of Nursing and  relate the paradigm directly to your POI. How do the four concepts  within the meta-paradigm relate to your POI? Is one more important? Do  all four have the same level of importance?  You should support this  section with peer reviewed references as appropriate.  Specifically  identify the components of the meta-paradigm within your discussion. Be  sure to reference the meta-paradigm with the primary source.
Then, you will select both a Grand nursing theory as well as a Middle  range nursing theory.  Take time to review several examples of each type  of theory as the selected theories need to “fit” your POI…and work  well together.
Grand  nursing theory discussion:  identify and discuss the  inter-related concepts from your selected theory.  What aspects of the  nursing meta-paradigm are addressed by your grand theory?  Then provide  information about how you will view your POI through the lens of the  grand theory.  How does the theory guide your assessment of the POI?   How does the theoretical framework chosen categorize or define your POI?  How does the theoretical framework effect your perception of the POI?
Middle range nursing theory discussion: identify and discuss the  inter-related concepts within the middle range theory.  What aspects of  the nursing meta-paradigm are addressed in the mid-range theory? How  will this theory guide your assessment/perception of the POI?  How does  this mid range theory relate to your grand theory?
Complexity science: how does complexity science relate to your POI?   Depending on the nature of your POI, this conversation may have  different foci for different students.  For example, if your POI is  glycemic management of the peri-operative patient, this discussion would  center on the complex responses of the human body as a Complex Adaptive  System.  If your POI is focused on a policy change issue, the focus may  be on organizational complexities with communication, change, etc.  Identify a specific Complex Adaptive System that is related to your  chosen POI and discuss how complexity science impacts this portion of  your POI.
Ethical framework:  you should discuss your specific POI in the context  of ethical principles.  Basic principles include autonomy, justice,  beneficence, and non-maleficence. Is your POI in violation of a core  ethical principle?  Is it possible it may be in violation?  What ethical  principles do you need to be sure to safeguard?  You should also  identify a specific Ethical Framework that will guide your  practice…Virtue ethics, Utilitarianism, the ANA Code of Ethics, are  examples of an ethical framework.
Conclusion:  this section should not contain any new information but  should only provide a summary of what what discussed in the paper.