Assessment 2: Written Assignment

Assessment and Diagnosis in Spiritual Care

Due Date:
Weighting: 30%
Word count: 1,000 – 1,500

Spiritual assessment has a central place in guiding and evaluating spiritual care. Overall
assessment is necessary for caregivers to plan and implement holistic care.
Assessment of the spiritual component of man is an equally important means of
measurement and assessment.
In this assignment you are required to write about spirituality and its benefits, spiritual
history taking and spiritual assessment and the role nurses play in providing spiritual
nursing care.
You will need to include the following information in your write up;
1. An introduction to spirituality in nursing.
2. Impact of spirituality on patient health outcome.
3. Spiritual history-taking
4. Spiritual assessment.
5. Spiritual distress.
6. Spirituality and cultural values.
7. Academic presentation: sentence structure, grammar, punctuation marks,
spellings, sentence flow, in-text referencing, and at least five (5) references.
Assessment 2 (Modified): Written Assignment Marking Criteria

Criteria Requirements Marks Marks

Allocated Gained

1. Introduction Introduction- definition, importance, history and influence to 5

nursing, the benefits of spirituality in nursing
care

2. Impact of Describe the impact of spirituality on patient health outcomes 10

Spirituality

3. Spiritual Discuss steps in taking a spiritual history. .20

history- taking (Select ONE model only; SPIRIT, FICA or HOPE model)

3. Spiritual Describe the steps in conducting spiritual assessment. 30

Assessment

4. Spiritual Describe the steps in conducting spiritual distress assessment 10

Distress

5. Spirituality and Comprehend how beliefs, faith and spirituality may be 10

Cultural Values intertwined with cultural values and sacred knowledge of
ethnic and indigenous groups.

6. Conclusion Summarize the content of the write-up. 5

7. Academic Academic writing (spelling, grammar, paragraphing). 10

Presentation APA referencing (in-text and listing) with at least 5 peer-
reviewed sources

Total Marks 100

 Assessment 2 (Modified): Written Assignment Marking Rubric

Level of Assessment
Criteria Inadequate Adequate Above average Exemplary
1–8 9 -13 14 - 17 18 - 20

Introduction No introduction Introduction is vague Introduction defines Introduction clearly

with unclear terms and importance/ defines the terms and its
definitions benefits with ambiguity importance and benefits

Impact of No discussion of Discussion of impact Discussion of impact Clear and concise

Spirituality on impact of spirituality of spirituality on of spirituality on health discussion of impact of
Health Outcomes on health outcomes health outcomes is outcomes is spirituality on health
minimal ambiguous outcomes

Spiritual History No discussion of Minimal discussion of Spiritual history taking Spiritual history taking
Taking spiritual history taking spiritual history taking explained and are clearly explained and
discussed with discussed
ambiguity
Spiritual No spiritual Minimal explanation Spiritual assessment Spiritual assessment
Assessment assessment tool and discussion of tool explanation is clearly defined and
identified and spiritual assessment ambiguous discussions are relevant.
discussed tool
Spiritual Distress No definition and Definitions stated with Spiritual distress is Spiritual distress is
discussion on minimal discussions defined but defined clearly and
spiritual distress on spiritual distress discussions are discussions are relevant
ambiguous
Spirituality and No discussion on Minimal discussions Spirituality and cultural Clear and concise
Cultural Values spirituality and on spirituality and values are discussed discussion of spirituality
cultural values cultural values with ambiguity and cultural values

Conclusion Conclusion does not Conclusion has Conclusion summary Conclusion is clear,
summarize themes minimal discussions is clear but too broad concise and summarizes
of summary themes well
Grammar & Spelling, punctuation Most spelling, Essay has few Essay is free of
Mechanics and grammatical punctuation and spelling, punctuation distracting spelling,
errors create grammar correct and grammatical punctuation and
distraction, making allowing reader to errors allowing reader grammatical errors;
reading difficult; progress through to follow ideas clearly. absent of fragments,
fragments, comma essay. Some errors Very few fragments or comma splices and run-
splices, run-ons remain. run-ons. ons.
evident. Errors are
frequent.
Referencing Poor or incorrect use Minimal errors in Accurate use of APA Accurate use of APA
of APA reference APA reference format reference format reference format
format.