Assignment task: Issues and Trends in Psychiatric Mental Health Practice
Collaboration Café
Purpose:
The purpose of the graded collaboration café is to engage students with their peers in an interactive dialogue to organize, integrate, apply, and critically appraise knowledge for nurse practitioner (NP) practice. Meaningful dialogue fosters the development of a learning community as ideas, perspectives, and knowledge are shared.?This collaboration café supports the professional formation of the nurse practitioner role.
Course Outcomes:
This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:
Examine the Scope and Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice Advanced Practice Competencies.
Preparing the Assignment
Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.
General Directions:
1. Select an issue or trend that impacts psychiatric mental health practice. Examples include ethical issues, mental health treatment disparities, substance abuse, recovery, or wellness issues.
2. Select one of the phenomena of concern for psychiatric mental health nurses as described by the American Nurses Association et al. (2022) text on pp. 4-5.
Source: American Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, & International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses. (2022). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.). American Nurses Association.
Include the following sections:
I. Application?of?Course?Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
a. Describe the issue or trend.
b. Provide an example from practice.
c. Discuss how the phenomenon you selected relates to or impacts your selected issue/trend.