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Overview: Immobility and Functional Decline
For this assignment, you will watch a video webcast, “Immobility and Functional Decline: Avoiding the Spiral.” You will also read the article that accompanies it, take the test attached to the article, and complete the self-reflection questions in this document.
To access the Webcast, Webcast materials, the article, and the test:
Click on http://www.nursingcenter.com/library/static.asp?pageid=650513
Click on Check here to view the Webcast. (30 minutes)
Download the Webcast course materials before viewing.
View the Webcast.
Click on and read the article, A New Look at the Old – Immobility and Functional Decline: Avoiding the Spiral.
Complete the post-test on pp.13-14 of the article, and record your answers on a sheet of paper. Use the key in the article to check your answers. You will not be graded on the number of items correct. Transfer your answers and the correct answers to the items you missed to this assignment document.
Complete the reflections in Part B.
Performance Objectives:
Apply gerontologic nursing principles and standards in nursing practice across the continuum of elder care.
Distinguish normal and abnormal changes of aging and functionality in caring for older adults.
Rubric
Use this rubric to guide your work on the assignment, “Immobility and Functional Decline.”
Task
Accomplished
Proficient
Needs Improvement
Self-Assessment & Reflections
(Total 15 points)
On time (5 points)
Complete (10 points)
Partially complete (5 points)
Late or not submitted (0 points)
A. Webinar Self-Assessment
Record your responses to each test item. After completing the test, check your answers against the answer key in the article and record the correct answers for the ones you missed. (Your grade on this assignment is not dependent upon the number of correct answers but rather on your reflections in Part B.)
Item #
Correct Answer
1. A
2. A
3.C
4.C