Benchmark Assignment – Spiritual Needs Assessment and Reflection
Details:
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:
- What went well?
- 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?
- How can this tool assist you in providing appropriate interventions to meet the needs of your patient?
- 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 APA Style
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.
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 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.
- 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 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.
- Clear and convincing argument presents a persuasive claim in a distinctive and compelling manner. All sources are authoritative.
- Writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English.
- All format elements are correct.
- Sources are completely and correctly documented, as appropriate to assignment and style, and format is free of error.
Spiritual Needs assessment Interview
Sex: Female
Age: 40
Ethnicity: Asian
Religion: Catholic
- What is the role of faith in your life?
My faith is the guiding principle in all aspects of my life; whether, personal or professional.
- How important is practicing your religion as a coping mechanism?
The practice of religion by praying is my primary coping mechanism. It has given me direction all my life.
- How your religion influences your health treatments?
My faith affects my decisions regarding life and death; for example, my faith prevents me from using contraceptive methods, having an abortion or attempting euthanasia.
- Do you pray regularly? How much praying helps you in your everyday life?
I pray in the morning when I wake up and before I go to sleep. Praying gives me peace of mind and helps me cope with the stress and stressful situations in every day.
- Among the following characteristics: foundations of faith, power, well-being, or peace; which one had more importance when you decided to practice your religion? Explain
Foundations of faith: The Catholic faith is the only religion for me that is compatible with my beliefs; for example, the idea I have about what happened after death, the existence of a higher divine being, the ten commandments and so on and so forth. It has made May life more sense to me, made my life worth living and worth dying forth. It has given me a purpose in life and continues to do so which in turn has given me a direction in life and peace of mind.
