Assignment task:
Course Description:
This purpose of this course is to provide students further studies related psychiatric/mental health care management of patients across the life span to include underlying acute and chronic psychiatric/mental health disorders. Clinical opportunities will be utilized to apply concepts in primary and acute care settings with adults and families.
Program Outcomes:
Students are expected to meet all the core MSN program outcomes as well as the Psychiatric Mental Health program outcomes.
Upon completion of their program, the student should be able to:
1. Demonstrate critical thinking and holistic caring as an advanced practice
2. Analyze scientific literature for application to selected diagnoses and treatment
3. Synthesize ethical principles into the management and evaluation of healthcare delivery concerns in culturally diverse care settings.
4. Articulate a personal philosophy and framework acknowledging professional and accrediting agency competencies relating to the role and scope of practice of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
5. Implement the role of the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in selected clinical settings
Course Learning Objectives:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
1. Apply knowledge, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, 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.
2. Integrate, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, 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 life span to form differential diagnoses and implement therapeutic, patient-centered treatment plans and interventions for patient populations across the lifespan.
3. Merge, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, traditional and complementary pharmacological/non-pharmaceutical interventions into the treatment and management of psychiatric mental health disorders for patient populations across the lifespan.
4. Examine, evaluate, and demonstrate, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, 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.
5. Integrate, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, 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 illnesses for patient populations across the lifespan as a member of an interprofessional team.
6. Analyze, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, 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.
7. Identifies, with mentor supervision and minimal prompting, the highest level of professionalism and accountability for the PMHNP role for transition into clinical practice.
Clinical Highlights:
Choose one or more of the following to guide your self-reflection of your experience this week. Do not report on an extended SOAP note patient. The reflection should be a minimum of 100 to 150 words.
- Discuss an encounter that was particularly interesting and what you learned from it?
- Discuss a difficult or challenging encounter and how you handled it?
- Discuss an example of how you were able to independently contribute to this week's encounters?
- Were there any patient management plans developed by your preceptor that surprised you?
- Were you able to "teach" your preceptor anything this week?
- Identify a personal learning need you discovered while assessing or managing a specific diagnosis. What steps will you take to improve your understanding or skills?
- What insights did you gain during your experience this week that will prove most helpful for future encounters?
- What personal success do you want to celebrate?
- If I could have a do over, I would have done this instead......
Looking Ahead:
- What clinical goal would you like to tackle next week?
- What is your proposed clinical schedule (date/time/total hours) for next week?