Unit 7 Seminar

Melissa Penner, RN, BSN, MATL

Student Teacher

Please come to this week's seminar prepared to discuss how various developmental stages in members of your virtual family can impact how you collect health assessment data. Prepare at least two specific examples using two members of your family.  In preparing for the seminar, remember you can review the readings as well as the discussions that occurred.

Erikson’s 8 Developmental Stages Freud’s theory Includes social and cultural influences

First theorist to determine that development is a life long process

Eight stages move from birth to death

Presented as developmental crises that a person resolves before proceeding to the next stage

Lets look at all eight stages

Conflict: Trust vs Mistrust

Accomplishment: Baby learns to trust caregiver

Conflict: Autonomy vs Shame

Accomplishment: Development of a sense of

personal control and indepenence

Conflict: Initiative vs Guilt

Accomplishment: Sense of purpose

Conflict: Industry vs Inferiority

Accomplishment: Sense of competence

Conflict: Identity vs Role Confusion

Accomplishment: Sense of self and personal

identity

Conflict: Intimacy and Solidarity vs

Isolation

Accomplishment: Strong relationships

Conflict: Generativity vs Self Absorption or

Stagnation

Accomplishment: Feelings of usefulness and

accomplishment

Conflict: Integrity vs Despair

Accomplishment: Feelings of wisdom

In this unit, you will complete your work on a comprehensive health assessment using interventions that are both developmentally and culturally appropriate. This work will be based upon your collection of the data for your family provided in the course to date.

In Unit 7, you evaluated the developmental issues for the members of the your virtual family, using Erikson or another reliable source, to support your discussion. In this unit, you will develop the culturally appropriate strategies of the project. Your project will discuss each family member individually and how cultural issues may affect the family as a group.

This information will be combined with your work in Unit 7 and submitted as a single project for both units. Your final project will be a 3-5 page paper in APA format and include the following: A comprehensive health assessment based on

developmental and cultural factors. Identification of developmental issues for each family

member and their potential impact on the family as a whole.

Identification of cultural issues for each family member and their potential impact on the family as a whole.

Identification of strategies/interventions for the nurse to use when conducting a health assessment of patients from diverse developmental stages and cultures.

Preparation for a comprehensive health assessment based on developmental and cultural factors

Identification of developmental issues Identification of cultural issues Identification of strategies for the nurse

to use when conducting a health assessment of patients from diverse developmental stages and cultures

Davidson, M., Ladewig, P. and London, M. L. (2007). Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan. 8th Ed. Prentice Hall.