Essay 5: Understanding of conducting a spiritual assessment

The purpose of this assignment is to apply your understanding of conducting a spiritual assessment using the FICA model. In the past, this assignment has been done as a video, but you will be happy to know that it is now being done as a transcript.

You are to interview a “patient” using the FICA model. Your patient can be a family, friend, classmate but not a real patient. Please identify your patient by first name only.
You can find appropriate FICA questions in the resources or in searching the internet. Evaluation of the FICA Tool for Spiritual Assessment has an excellent tool on page 166. Remember to prompt further with yes or no responses.
You need to start with an introductory paragraph of your interview purpose and intent, your interviewee and the setting.
Your transcript needs to include your specific interviewer questions and your interviewee’s responses.
Afterwards, you will create a narrative paragraph summarizing the spiritual assessment that can be included in the “patient’s” medical record.
A cover page is required but you do not need to adhere to any other APA writing expectations.
Your submission should include:

Cover page
A brief introduction (who, what, where)
Interviewer questions & interviewee responses

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You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.