NURS 126 Nursing Care of Special Populations: Geriatric & Psychiatric Nursing

“Older Adult Interview” Grading Criteria Rubric

CLINICAL LEARNING OUTCOMES

The student will:

  1. Interact intentionally with older adults (65 years or older) living independently in the community.
  2. Assess and recognize the functional physical, emotional, and mental

needs of older adults living in the community.

  1. Demonstrate therapeutic communication skills with the older adult.
  2. Adapt and use the appropriate manner of communication for age; culture; and ethnicity.
  3. Describe the role of the nurse when providing care to older adults in

the community.

  1. Discuss previously held beliefs/assumptions about how older adults

live independently in the community.

  1. Assess older adults’ risks and understand the importance of weighing

risks and benefits when caring for older adults.

  1. Maintain professionalism during the interview.
  2. Introduce yourself as a Montgomery College Nursing Student who is in the second semester of nursing school. Explain the course (NURS 126) and share the Clinical Learning Outcomes (page 1) with the older adult.
  3. Inform the older adult that you are interviewing him/her for a class project and that you will share information obtained during the interview with your teacher and fellow students.
  4. Inform the older adult that you will only use their initials to identify them and assure them that you will not share any other identifiers.
  5. Thank the older adult for their time and for sharing this information with you.
  6. Assignment must be completed in essay format using the six content areas to construct paragraphs. Assignments not completed in essay format will not be graded.
  7. Submit this assignment on Blackboard, and it is subject to Safe Assign review. This assignment is a clinical requirement; failure to complete the assignment by the due date will result in a clinical failure.