This debriefing enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
- CO 1: Demonstrate a head-to-toe physical assessment. (PO 1)
- CO 2: Differentiate between normal and abnormal health assessment findings. (PO 4)
- CO 4: Demonstrate effective communication skills during health assessment and documentation. (PO 3)
- CO 5: Identify collaborative opportunities for health promotion, risk reduction, and disease prevention. (POs 1, 2)
- CO 6: Demonstrate caring and professional behavior during patient interactions. (POs 6, 7)
Due Date
Graded debriefings are due Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT.
Total Points Possible
This debriefing is worth a total of 50 points.
Preparing the Discussion
Directions
Debriefing: Discover and Deepen
- You are encouraged, but not required, to complete at least one i-Human Virtual Patient Encounter attempt before participating in the debriefing.
- Include a citation from the weekly lesson (Explore pages) in your response and reference list.
- Here is an example of how to cite the lesson:
- Chamberlain University College of Nursing. (2024). NR-305 Week 2: Conducting a Holistic Assessment [Online lesson]. https://chamberlain.instructure.com/login/canvas
- Answer all questions below with explanations and details.
Paragraph one: Reflect on your experience conducting a mental health assessment. Explain how your understanding and approach to mental health assessment has evolved over time. What experiences or insights have impacted the way you approach a mental health assessment?
Paragraph two: Answer the questions based on the first letter of your last name below.
Last Name Question to Answer
H – Q How would you approach a mental health assessment differently if you were evaluating an elderly client diagnosed with a terminal illness having suicidal ideation?
Paragraph three: Reflect on the importance of assessing violence and abuse. What is your current knowledge and comfort level with conducting proper assessments, documenting related injuries, and reporting cases in accordance with your state and facilitys policy for managing suspected cases of violence and abuse? How can you enhance your skills and adherence to these essential policies to better support and protect those at risk of violence and abuse?
Posts should meet the following criteria:
- Integrate Evidence: Cite evidence from the weekly lesson at least once in weekly posts.
- Integrate evidence from the weekly lesson.
- Cite and provide a complete reference for the evidence from the weekly lesson.
- Engage in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage with peers and/or faculty by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice.
- Respond to a peer and/or faculty post.
- Provide additional information or clarification in the reply post.
- Add depth to the debriefing.
- Communicate Professionally: Communicates professionally on all posts.
- Communicate clearly and concisely.
- Communicate respectfully, civilly, and caringly.
- Communicate with minimal English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation errors.
- Participate: Participates during the assigned week. You are expected to meet the minimum participation requirement described below. You will receive a 10% point deduction in a graded discussion if you do not post at least two (2) times on at least two (2) different days during the assigned week.
- Post in the debriefing at least two times.
- Post in the debriefing on two different days.

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