Client Challenges: Preparing the Assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
Some clients may present specific challenges to the interview and physical examination. Nurse practitioners must be able to identify behaviors that impede the assessment and consider strategies to provide care to these clients.
Review the assigned topics listed by the first letter of your first name. For example, if your first name begins with the letter G then then your assigned topic is the approach to a flirtatious client.
| The First Letter of Your First Name | Topic |
|---|---|
| A – D | Argumentative client |
| E – H | Flirtatious client |
| I – L | Talkative client |
| M – P | Client who displays racist or discriminatory behavior |
| Q – T | Adolescent client who is reluctant to answer questions |
| U – Z | Violent client |
Complete the following requirements:
- Application of Course Knowledge:
- Create a sample scenario based on your assigned topic. Describe potential client behaviors consistent with the concern listed.
- Discuss an appropriate and professional approach to address the behavior and communicate with the client.
- Provide an example of how you would document the encounter.
- Integration of Evidence: Provide support from a minimum of one scholarly in-text citation in addition to the textbook.
- Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Respond to a student peer and course faculty to further dialogue.
- Peer Response: Respond substantively to at least one topic-related post by a student peer with a different topic from the initial post. A substantive post adds content or insights or asks a question that will add to the learning experience and/or generate discussion.
- Faculty Response: Respond substantively to at least one question by course faculty. The faculty question may be directed to the student, to another student, or to the entire class.
- Professionalism in Communication: Present information in a logical, meaningful, and understandable sequence that is clearly relevant to the discussion topic.
- Grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation are accurate.
- Good writing calls for the limited use of direct quotes. Direct quotes in discussions are to be limited to one short quotation (not to exceed 10 words). The quote must add substantively to the discussion.
- Reference Citation: Provide references with complete information as required by APA (0-1 errors). Include in-text citations included for all references, AND references for all in-text citations (0 errors).
- Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the graded discussion question(s) or topic(s), posted by the course faculty (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
- Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic, one to a student peer, and one to a faculty question) on two different days during the week.
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