Nursing Initial Assessment Assignment Instructions
You will be doing a nursing assessment on a family member or friend for this assignment. You will need
access to this person for a future assignment as well where you will be recording yourself teaching
them, so please keep that in mind when picking someone.
Using the skills and knowledge you have gained so far this term, perform a nursing assessment
on your chosen person and fill out the form provided.
Choosing someone that has some type of disease process might make this easier.
As always, include a title page and page numbers in accordance with APA format.
It will be easier if you interview someone who has some medical problems, but isn’t required.
In this first portion of the assignment, you will be filling out the included template based on doing an
assessment of your chosen person. You will act as if you are admitting this patient to the hospital, and
you are doing the initial comprehensive assessment.
Please interview your designated person and complete the assessment. Be as thorough as possible. This
information will be used later on in future assignments.
Patient Education Section (Last section)
You will complete this section based on the assessment you just performed as well as using your
client education book as a reference.
Based on their assessment, what things could you teach this patient? What would they benefit
from learning?
This assignment can be typed or handwritten, or a combo of both, it is up to you. If you do hand write,
please make sure it is legible.
