Assignment Task
Purpose
This assessment will enable students to articulate their knowledge and understanding of the management of patients with chronic illness and disability. The task provides students with an opportunity to engage with a health consumer, and to gain insight into the impact chronic illness and/or disability has on the consumer’s life. Students are expected to plan person-centered care and patient education in partnership with the consumer. Students must apply specific selected framework(s) (health behaviour theory) to demonstrate critical thinking, clinical reasoning, and the principles of caring for people with a chronic illness or disability.
Task
You are required to conduct a face to face, phone, or video call interview with a real person in your community who has a chronic illness or disability to discover the impact this has on their life. You will need to prepare for your interview. McGrath, Palmgren & Liljedahl (2019) suggest twelve steps for conducting research interviews as a guide; this article is linked under the Assessment 2 information on Canvas.
Based on the information obtained during the interview and in collaboration with the interviewee, identify two (2) relevant care priorities.
For each identified care priority, outline and discuss one (1) SMART goal and one (1) health education plan relevant for the person to meet the SMART goal developed in collaboration with the person.
You are expected to incorporate relevant nursing related literature to support all areas of the assignment, including the pathophysiology, the importance of the priorities, SMART goals, health behaviour theory and education plan in the context of the interviewees chronic condition and/or disability.