Describe how you would begin a conversation with Butch about his diabetes, with the goal of providing health teaching, using motivational interviewing techniques.

Butch is an older male veteran who is homeless and is seeking health care because of concerns about his foot. Butch Sampson’s description of why he has presented for health care, his living situation, and personal experiences and preferences form the background for this assignment. The other readings and videos in this module are intended to provide you with ideas and tools to use when providing health care to people from different backgrounds and with different expectations of care. These tools include motivational interviewing techniques. You are encouraged to look for additional resources such as scholarly articles that are relevant to the topic.

INSTRUCTIONS
Write a 2 – 3 page, APA formatted paper. Use a narrative approach – take a first-person (your own) point of view. When using a narrative approach, it is appropriate to use “I”, for example, you might write: I would begin by asking Butch about his health, by saying
“Tell me about why you came in to the clinic today”.
Review the grading rubric before beginning, to ensure you meet all expectations.
Use these headings:
Using Motivational Interviewing in Patient Care
In this section, introduce Butch to the reader. Also briefly describe motivational interviewing, and how and why it might be using in health care.
Health Teaching on Diabetes
Describe how you would begin a conversation with Butch about his diabetes, with the goal of providing health teaching, using motivational interviewing techniques. Include specific examples of what you would say. Be sure to cite from the required readings,
and any additional articles you found.
Addressing Butch’s Living Situation Describe how you would start a conversation with Butch about his living situation, using a motivational interviewing approach. Include specific examples of what you would say. You could compare motivational interviewing with other approaches you could use, and discuss why a motivational interviewing approach might be more (or less) effective than other method/s.
Conclusion

Reflect on whether or not using motivational interviewing techniques could improve your nursing practice when caring for Butch and other patients in the future. Provide a summary of the paper.
RUBRIC:
Using Motivational Interviewing in Patient care: Describes motivational interviewing and Butch‘s case in sufficient detail to give the reader a very good understanding of both.
Health teaching on diabetes/Addresses assignment prompts: Addresses both assignment questions / prompts with exceptional application of the technique. Uses provided headings for sequencing.
Addressing Butch’s living situation: Cites required readings and additional academic articles/sources to support proposed approach.
Conclusion: Strong reflection on how motivational interviewing can be used to improve nursing practice – with this patient and into the future.
Make sure theres no plagiarism please.
Follow the rubric.

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