NUR645E Advanced Health Assessments for Nurse Educators Week 3 Discussion: Assessing a patient who may have been cutting herself
Discussion: Assessing a patient who may have been cutting herself
DQ1 You are completing a complete health assessment on a patient and you notice that there are indications that the patient may have been cutting herself. You inquire about the marks and she states that she fell and scratched her wrist when she tried to break her fall. How do you handle this information? Defend your rationale with references (APA format).
DQ2 You are working with a nursing student from an undergraduate nursing program. She does not perform an exam of the cranial nerves correctly. You discuss this with her outside the exam room and she denies that she did the examination incorrectly and that she got checked off on physical assessment. What do you say to her? Defend your rationale with references (APA format).
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.