Assignment task: Psychiatric Mental Healthcare -Unit 9-Assignment Journal Reflection. 900w. 4 references.
Instructions:
You will create 5 entries for your Reflective Journal about a patient encounter. In the 5th entry, you will review the previous 4 entries and evaluate your progress in reflective practice over the course of the term.
The purpose of this reflective journal is self-reflection regarding the role in the process of self-reflection as a PMHNP provider. Through reflective practice, the student will evaluate their own emotional health and recognize one's own feelings as well as one's ability to monitor and manage those feelings. The point of the exercise is to learn yourself, your triggers, the types of cases you end up getting overly involved with, and those you'd rather refer to someone else. The idea is to be able to personally reflect on your behaviors/thoughts/decisions and how those impact you in the role of PMHNP.
1. Describe a significant event/patient interaction you have experienced anytime in your nursing career up to this week.
2. Discuss the impact this had on you in terms of increasing your understanding of the PMHNP role, psychopathology, and/or the provider-patient relationship.
3. Explore your personal strengths and limitations and their effect on the provider/patient relationship. Include reflection on your therapeutic use of self.
4. Your discussion should reflect your specific learning/insight.
5. Identify something specific that you learned from reflecting on this event/interaction and how will you apply that learning in your future practice?
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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].
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