Assignment Task: Psychiatric Mental Healthcare
Course Description:
This course prepares students to assess, diagnose, and manage mental health care needs across the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on underlying acute and chronic psychiatric/mental health diagnoses. Clinical opportunities will be utilized for all PMHNP to apply concepts in primary and acute care settings with adults and families.
Program: Graduate Nursing
Initial Response
Instructions:
Please respond to the following questions based upon these course objectives:
- Apply knowledge, with mentor guidance and supervision, of chronic and acute psychiatric mental health disorders using the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders diagnostic criteria to assess, diagnose and manage the patient populations across the lifespan including a focus on vulnerable populations at risk for mental health disorders.
- Integrate, with mentor guidance and supervision, complete mental health assessment, interview, history, and physical exam data collection with the knowledge of pathophysiology and psychopathology of psychiatric mental health disorders across the lifespan to form differential diagnoses and implement therapeutic, patient-centered treatment plans and interventions for patient populations across the lifespan.
- Merge, with mentor guidance and supervision, traditional and complementary pharmacological/non-pharmaceutical interventions into the treatment and management of psychiatric mental health disorders for patient populations across the lifespan.
- Examine, evaluate, and demonstrate, with mentor guidance and supervision, professional development in the role of the nurse practitioner in the diagnosis and management of health and wellness as well as acute and chronic psychiatric mental health disorders illnesses for patient populations across the lifespan as a member of an interprofessional team.
- Integrate, with mentor guidance and supervision, cultural, spiritual, and social competencies into therapeutic patient-centered treatment plans in connection with evidence-based findings to the diagnosis and management of individuals, groups, and families across the lifespan with acute, complex, and chronic psychiatric mental health disorders.
- Analyze, with mentor guidance and supervision, professional values and core ethical/legal standards into the practice of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner role with relation to patient/staff safety, quality indicators, and health outcome improvement in the delivery of quality psychiatric mental health care to patients.
- Identifies, with mentor guidance and supervision, the highest level of professionalism and accountability for the PMHNP role for transition into clinical practice.
Please answer the following questions with supporting examples and full explanations.
1. For each of the learning objectives, provide an analysis of how the course supported each objective.
2. Explain how the material learned in this course, based upon the objectives, will be applicable to the professional application.
Resource to use:
Course Description
This course prepares students to assess, diagnose, and manage mental health care needs across the lifespan. Emphasis will be placed on underlying acute and chronic psychiatric/mental health diagnoses. Clinical opportunities will be utilized for all PMHNP to apply concepts in primary and acute care settings with adults and families.
Program: Graduate Nursing
Resources
Carlat, D. J. (2023). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer. ISBN: 9781975212971
American Nurses Association & American Psychiatric Nurse Association. (2015). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Credentialing. ISBN-13: 978-1558105553 ISBN-10: 1558105557
American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Text Revision Dsm-5-tr (5th ed.) (DSM-5). Washington DC: APA Press. ISBN: 978-0890425763
Johnson, K., & Vanderhoef, D. (2016). Psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner review manual (4th ed.). Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association. ISBN: 978-1-935213-79-6
Robert Joseph Boland, Verduin, M. L., Ruiz, P., Arya Shah, & Sadock, B. J. (2021). Kaplan and Sadock's synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (12th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams, and Wilkins. 9781975145569
Recommended:
Bickley, L. (2016). Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History-Taking [VitalSouce bookshelf version]. https://batesvisualguide.com/. Eleventh, North American Edition; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: ISBN 1609137620
Corey, G. (2016). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy (10th ed.). Boston, MA:Cengage. ISBN: 9781305263727
Heldt, J. P., MD. (2017). Memorable psychopharmacology. Create Space Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN-13: 978-1-535-28034-1
Shea, S. C. (2017). Psychiatric interviewing: The art of understanding (3rd ed.) Elsevier.
Stahl, S. M. (2013). Stahl's essential psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific basis and practical applications (4th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-68646-5
Stahl, S. M. (2020). Prescriber's guide: Stahl's essential psychopharmacology (7th ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1108926010