Assignment task:
Unit 9: Depression Treatment Planning for Effectiveness.
Part 1. Initial Response 400w. 4 references. APA format. Please include and use the resource below
Instructions:
- Compare and contrast delirium with brief psychotic disorder.
- For this discussion, you will need to place particular emphasis on how comprehensive assessment could help us to arrive at the correct diagnosis for the adult/geriatric patient.
- Provide example for each case.
- Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis, and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student's position.
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
Part 2. Peer Response 400w. 4 references. APA format. Please include and use the resource below.
Instructions:
Please read and respond to at least two of your peers' initial postings. You may want to consider the following questions in your responses to your peers:
- Compare and contrast your initial posting with those of your peers.
- How are they similar or how are they different?
- What information can you add that would help support the responses of your peers?
- Ask your peers a question for clarification about their post.
- What most interests you about their responses?
Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.
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].
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