Homework answers / question archive / Interview Assignment overview The interview assignment will aide you in meeting course objectives: analyzing the unique health needs of older adults determining appropriate nursing interventions related to a variety of health problems in the older adult prioritizing strategies related to assessment and prevention of illness in the older adult constructing a research question that remain unanswered in both your personal learning and in the profession of gerontological nursing Please use the same older adult (age 65 or older) from the start of the assignment to the end

Interview Assignment overview The interview assignment will aide you in meeting course objectives: analyzing the unique health needs of older adults determining appropriate nursing interventions related to a variety of health problems in the older adult prioritizing strategies related to assessment and prevention of illness in the older adult constructing a research question that remain unanswered in both your personal learning and in the profession of gerontological nursing Please use the same older adult (age 65 or older) from the start of the assignment to the end

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Interview Assignment overview The interview assignment will aide you in meeting course objectives: analyzing the unique health needs of older adults determining appropriate nursing interventions related to a variety of health problems in the older adult prioritizing strategies related to assessment and prevention of illness in the older adult constructing a research question that remain unanswered in both your personal learning and in the profession of gerontological nursing Please use the same older adult (age 65 or older) from the start of the assignment to the end. You should make a visit (face to face, via telephone, via Skype, via Facetime, via Zoom....the visit pathway is your/their choice - consider why they selected the option) to your selected older adult during the term to conduct Section 1 and Section 2 of the interview separately. interview paper using APA format Types of interviewsLinks to an external site.: A narrative essay offers writers the freedom to apply an interviewee’s direct speech and includes their thoughts in the text. With this essay, you’ll have more room to analyze the facts and opinions of the interviewee and remove useless or redundant words. A conversational essay gives you many options to address your audience. As a less stringent writing format, this essay permits you to apply the first- and second-person narrative in your write-up A Q&A essay is stricter as you must only quote the exact words the interviewee said without changing them. Therefore, Q&A essays are more suitable for single interviewees. This format is more popular in magazines Section 1 of the Interview has two focuses: Belief on aging and Life review. Interview - Section 1a focus: Belief on Aging, assignment items: Introduction to your interview: explain why you conducted the interviews of at least two (2) people on their beliefs on aging. With scholarly support discuss why this is important to you as a RN. One interviewee must be an older adult (age 65 or older) AND the other interviewee can be an adolescent (ages 14 to 20), young adult (ages 21 - 40), or a middle-aged person (ages 41 to 65). Introduce the two people you interviewed (without specific/personal identifiers). Include basic, brief information about your interviewee's background and why you selected them as your interviewees. The interview focus will be about their beliefs on aging. Record the responses of each interviewee to the same five (5) questions from the following list (if needed, incorporate follow-up questions of your own). Document questions & responses (3 or more sentences) using a narrative, conversational, or question-and-answer format: Do you think age is a good indicator of how old someone is? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Do you think older people are more alike than younger people are? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. How important is family to you? How important are friendships to you? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Do you think relationships are more important to older people than to younger people or vice versa? Why do you think that? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Volunteer activities: Do you participate in volunteer activities? If so, what type of volunteer work is it? How long has the volunteerism continued? What is the perceived value to the interviewee of this volunteer activity? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Travel: Do you participate in travel activities? Recall of a most memorable travel experience. What were the features that made that trip/travel so memorable? What is the perceived value of traveling. Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Would you say that, for most people, old age is a wonderful time? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Respond to this statement: “If people live long enough, they will probably become senile.” On what does your interviewee base their response? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Do you feel young people are more productive than older people? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. Would you say that older workers are more likely than younger workers to resist change? Please have your interviewee's explain their answer. D. With scholarly support, summarize your interview by comparing and analyzing the responses between interviewees. Include Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial DevelopmentLinks to an external site. and/or theories on aging mentioned in your textbook, and at least one additional scholarly source as you write your comparison and analysis. Interview - Section 1b focus: Life Review, assignment items: Introduce this section of the interview, explaining the importance of a life review in the older adult.....with scholarly support discuss at least two ways the life review process is beneficial to both the older adult interviewed and the health care provider. Ask your older adult interviewee to explain their answer five (5) the following life review questions (follow-up questions of your own can be added). Document questions & responses (3 or more sentences) using a narrative, conversational, or question-and-answer format: What was the world like when you grew up? What was the most significant event of your childhood? What were your family's greatest strengths? Who was your best friend when you were growing up? Who has been the most significant person in your life? To whom do you go for advice on important issues? How have your relationships with both family and friends changed over time? What has been your greatest accomplishment? What are your feelings about lifelong learning? How do you define wisdom? If you could change anything at anytime in your life, what would it be? What are you most thankful for? C. Write a reflective paragraph or two on the Interview process using the following questions as guidelines: What were your thoughts on aging prior to conducting the interview(s)? Were your thoughts on aging challenged by the interview(s)? What did you learn about the older adult as it connects to those around them, their view on age? Did you begin to analyze unique health needs of the older adult that you didn't recognize before the interview? Explain. Did you begin to determine appropriate nursing interventions related to health problems in your older adult? Explain. During your interview did you begin to prioritize strategies related to assessment and prevention of illness in your older adult? Explain. Reference at least one scholarly source. D. Conduct a physical assessment (inspection only) of your older adult. Write up your inspection only assessment in APA 7th ed. font and line spacing. F. As a result of the interview and assessment, construct a research question related to a unique health need/problem that you identified during your interview with your older adult. This research question will be used in Interview - Section 2 (research question and findings). Submit an APA 7th ed. formatted paper: title page, running head from p2 onward, font, spacing, intext citation, separate each focus using a centered heading, headings for the assignment items in each focus, and a reference page. Interview - Section 2: Research question and findings assignment items: Introduction to your paper, explain the purpose of the paper..... Restate your research question related to a unique health need/problem that you identified from your personal learning during your interview with your older adult. Introduce and define the health need/problem by Explaining how the identified health need/problem related to your older adult With scholarly support (textbook, scholarly journal) define the health need/problem and how it is unique to the older adult. D. Select two original research studiesLinks to an external site. from two different scholarly, gerontological journals that are related to the health need/problem you have identified. In two separate paragraphs, summarize each study: APA 7th ed. intext citations, population studied, number of participants, location, research question/purpose, findings In another paragraph analyze/compare the two studies collectively for the following: What were the key term(s) of the studies? Were the reasons the studies were conducted similar? Were the sample sizes or profile of the studies similar? Were the major findings and conclusions of the studies similar? Identify the nursing interventions in the studies. If no nursing interventions are identified, what can be inferred? Explain how the studies relate to your research question E. Offer your professional opinion about both studies related to their findings in answering your research question and the impact on your practice as a RN. F. Identify future research needed related to the research question and study summaries/analysis. G.. With scholarly support, identify at least two education points or two appropriate nursing interventions which can be implemented to address the identified unique health need/problem for the older adult. H. With scholarly support, introduce and discuss one ethical issue related to the older adult. I. Offer a conclusion Submit an APA 7th ed. formatted paper: title page, running head from p2 onward, font, spacing, intext citation, headings for A - I above, and reference page.