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American Sentinel University Home Safety Assessment Essay

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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

Additional Instructions:

  • All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
  • Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
  • Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
  • Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
  • Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.

**Family Support Assessment Required

Submission Options:

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Instructions:

Paper

  • 4 to 6-page paper. Include title and reference pages.

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

  • 8 to 10 slides. Add title and reference slides.
  • Follow Rules of 7.

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  • 8 to 10 slides with speaker notes. Add title and reference slides.
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  • 5 to 8-minute video presentation.
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  • Professional appearance and background.
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Table

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Note: Title and reference pages/slides do not count towards the count requirements.

RUBRIC:

Collaboration for Improving Outcomes – Home Safety Assessment Description: Practice evidence-based public health nursing to promote the health of  individuals, families, and groups. Course Competencies: 2) Develop a holistic case management plan for a specified disease or  population that incorporates the role of insurance, health care finance, and utilization of  community resources. 4) Coordinate the care of individuals across the lifespan utilizing  principles and knowledge of interdisciplinary models of care delivery and case management. QSEN Competencies: 1) Patient-Centered Care 2) Teamwork and Collaboration 3) EvidenceBased Practice 5) Safety  BSN Essential VII Area Gold Mastery Silver Proficient  Bronze Acceptable  Acceptable  Mastery not  Demonstrated Health, Safety, and  Environmental  Hazards  Identify and  prioritize two  health, two  safety, and two  environmental  hazards in the  home. Lists and does  not prioritize two  health, two  safety, and two  environmental  hazards in the  home. Identifies and  prioritizes less  than two health,  safety, or  environmental  hazards in the  home. Does not  address section Evidence-based  Rationale  Interprets  evidence-based  rationale to  support  prioritization and  recommendations  for addressing  each identified  hazard Lists evidencebased rationale to  support  prioritization and  recommendations  for addressing  each identified  hazard Interprets  evidence-based  rationale but  does not  provide support  for  prioritization or  provides  support but  does not  interpret  evidence-based  rational 

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