Home Safety Assessment 2
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Home Safety Assessment
It is important to identify health issues or concerns that may impact an individual or family in any setting. This identification can help the nurse to address health promotion and disease prevention.
To complete this activity, you must complete the Family Support Assessment activity. Click on Enter Sentinel City®. Once in the city, click on the map to locate the apartment dwelling in Nightingale Square. Approach the door next to the laundromat and enter the apartment. Here you will complete the Home Safety Assessment by noting any health, safety, and environmental hazards in the apartment. Note as many of the hazards that you observe. Select and prioritize the top two hazards for health, safety, and environmental areas for a total of six hazards that the healthcare professional should address first:
- #1 = most serious hazard-life threatening
- #2 = second most important-potential to affect the most people or cause long-term injury
Try to avoid prioritizing the same hazard in multiple categories. Provide an evidence-based rationale and a recommendation for addressing the top two hazards in each category. Click the “Family Support Assessment” tab at the top of the screen and review the information on the form.
Reading and Resources
Chapter 16 pages 297-316, Chapter 23 pages 395-404, Chapter 20 pages 367-375, Chapter 26 pages 439-447 in Fundamentals of Case Management Practice.
Review clinical guidelines of the AHRQ
Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations
Additional Instructions:
- All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
- Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
- Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
- Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
- Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.
**Family Support Assessment Required
Submission Option
Instruction:
Paper
- 4 to 6-page paper. Include title and reference pages
Collaboration for Improving Outcomes – Home Safety Assessment
Description: Practice evidence-based public health nursing to promote the health of
individuals, families, and groups.
Course Competencies: 2) Develop a holistic case management plan for a specified disease or
population that incorporates the role of insurance, health care finance, and utilization of
community resources. 4) Coordinate the care of individuals across the lifespan utilizing
principles and knowledge of interdisciplinary models of care delivery and case management.
QSEN Competencies: 1) Patient-Centered Care 2) Teamwork and Collaboration 3) Evidence-
Based Practice 5) Safety
BSN Essential VII
Area Gold
Mastery
Silver
Proficient
Bronze
Acceptable
Acceptable
Mastery not
Demonstrated
Health, Safety, and
Environmental
Hazards
Identify and
prioritize two
health, two
safety, and two
environmental
hazards in the
home.
Lists and does
not prioritize two
health, two
safety, and two
environmental
hazards in the
home.
Identifies and
prioritizes less
than two health,
safety, or
environmental
hazards in the
home.
Does not
address section
Evidence-based
Rationale
Interprets
evidence-based
rationale to
support
prioritization and
recommendations
for addressing
each identified
hazard
Lists evidence-
based rationale to
support
prioritization and
recommendations
for addressing
each identified
hazard
Interprets
evidence-based
rationale but
does not
provide support
for
prioritization or
provides
support but
does not
interpret
evidence-based
rational
Does not
address section
APA, Grammar,
Spelling, and
Punctuation
No errors in
APA, Spelling,
and Punctuation.
One to three
errors in APA,
Spelling, and
Punctuation.
Four to six
errors in APA,
Spelling, and
Punctuation.
Seven or more
errors in APA,
Spelling, and
Punctuation.
References Provides two or
more references.
Provides two
references.
Provides one
references.
Provides no
references.
