Essay The School Nurse at Yarrowyck Case Study & Healthier Life – Nursing Assignment Help

Assignment Task     

Task

In this task that includes two parts, you will assess the needs of a family located within a rural area and identify strategies to assist them to improve their health literacy and live a healthier life.

You have been working as the School Nurse at Yarrowyck combined school where you care for the children from grade prep through to Year 12.

Yesterday, the grade 1/2 teacher (JennyTaylor) visited you out of concern for 7 year old Maisie Smyth, granddaughter of Robert Smyth. Jenny feels that Maisie has been withdrawn of late, and has noticed that she often has no lunch to eat. When on yard duty yesterday, Jenny found Maisie asleep under a tree. When Jenny asked Maisie why she was sleeping instead of playing with friends, Maisie insisted she was “just tired”.

This morning you have arranged for Maisie and two other grade one girls to help you set up a lunchtime disco. You ask Maisie how she has been and she bursts into tears, telling you that “mum and dad keep fighting, and I think they will break up”. You ask Maisie if she feels safe at home, and she nods her head, saying “yes”. You then ask her if she would like you to call her mum or her dad. Again she says yes, and follows it up with “Both of them. Tell them that I need them to stop fighting now”.

PART ONE (500 words)

1. Provide a brief overview of the case study, highlighting the important information. 
2. Identify one actual problem and one potential problem from the information, and determine how you as the school nurse can provide interventions to support Maisie and her parents during this time. 
3. Provide rationales for the interventions you suggest and cite evidence supporting your chosen rationale. 
4. Identify a method for evaluating the success of each intervention.