Community & Public Health

you will select a diagnosis among high-risk patient populations that are commonly readmitted to the hospital. 

COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED PSYCHIATRIC ASSESSMENT

Based on the YMH Boston Vignette 5 video, post answers to the following questions:

  • What did the practitioner do well? In what areas can the practitioner improve?
  • At this point in the clinical interview, do you have any compelling concerns? If so, what are they?
  • What would be your next question, and why?

Then, address the following. Your answers to these prompts do not have to be tailored to the patient in the YMH Boston video.

  • Explain why a thorough psychiatric assessment of a child/adolescent is important.
  • Describe two different symptom rating scales that would be appropriate to use during the psychiatric assessment of a child/adolescent.
  • Describe two psychiatric treatment options for children and adolescents that may not be used when treating adults.
  • Explain the role parents/guardians play in assessment.

Support your response with at least three peer-reviewed, evidence-based sources and explain why each of your supporting sources is considered scholarly. Attach the PDFs of your sources.

mental health


Rasmussen University – Mental Health Care Plan

A. Patient identifiers:

Age: Gender: Ht: Wt. Code Status:

Isolation:

Development Stage (Erikson): Give the stage and rationale for your evaluation

Health Status

Date of admission:

Activity level: Diet:

Fall risk (indicate reason)

Client’s description of health status

Allergies: (include type of reaction)

Reason for admission:

Past medical history that relates to admission:

Socio-cultural Orientation

Cultural and Ethnic Background with current practices:

Socialization:

Family system: (Support system)

Spiritual:

Occupation: (across the lifespan)

Patterns of living: (define past and current)

Barriers to independent living:

Healthcare systems elements (continued) ALLERGIES:

Medications: List all medications, dosages, classifications and the rational for the medications prescribed for this patient include major considerations for administration and the possible negative outcomes associated with this medication.

DEFINE 1: What the medications Mechanism of Action AND 2: Why the patient is taking the medication?

Medication Classification Dosage Rationale Possible negative outcomes

Psychiatric Diagnosis and DSM 5 Diagnostic Criteria

History of Present Psychiatric Illness

(Presenting signs & symptoms/ Previous Psychiatric Admission / Outpatient Mental Health Services)

CON
CEPT MAP

Pathophysiology – (to the cellular level)

Medical Diagnosis

Clinical Manifestations (all data subjective and objective: labs, radiology, all diagnostic studies) (What symptoms does your client present with?)

Complications

Treatment (Medical, medications, intervention and supportive)

Risk Factors (chemical, environmental, psychological, physiological and genetic)

Nursing Diagnosis

Problem statement: (NANDA)

Related to: (What is happening in the body to cause the issue?)

Manifested by: (Specific symptoms)

General Appearance

Presenting Appearance (nutritional status, physical deformities, hearing impaired, glasses, injuries, cane)
Basic Grooming and Hygiene (clean, disheveled and whether it is appropriate attire for the weather)

Gait and Motor Coordination (awkward, staggering, shuffling, rigid, trembling with intentional movement or at rest),
posture (slouched, erect),
any noticeable mannerisms or gestures

Level of Participation in the Program/Activity (Group attendance and milieu participation, exercise)

Manner and Approach

Interpersonal Characteristics and Approach to Evaluation (oppositional/resistant, submissive, defensive, open and friendly, candid and cooperative, showed subdued mistrust and hostility, excessive shyness)

Behavioral Approach (distant, indifferent, unconcerned, evasive, negative, irritable, depressive, anxious, sullen, angry, assaultive, exhibitionistic, seductive, frightened, alert, agitated, lethargic, needed minor/considerable reinforcement and soothing).
Coping and stress tolerance.

Speech (normal rate and volume, pressured, slow, loud, quiet, impoverished)

Expressive Language (no problems expressing self, circumstantial and tangential responses, difficulties finding words, echolalia, mumbling)

Receptive Language (normal, able to comprehend questions,

Orientation, Alertness, and Thought Process

Recall and Memory (recalls recent and past events in their personal history).
Recalls three words (e.g., Cadillac, zebra, and purple)
Orientation (person, place, time, presidents, your name)

Alertness (sleepy, alert, dull and uninterested, highly distractible)
Coherence (responses were coherent and easy to understand, simplistic and concrete, lacking in necessary detail, overly detailed and difficult to follow)

Concentration and Attention (naming the days of the week or months of the year in reverse order, spelling the word “world”, their own last name, or the ABC's backwards)

Thought Processes (loose associations, confabulations, flight of ideas, ideas of reference, illogical thinking, grandiosity, magical thinking, obsessions, perseveration, delusions, reports of experiences of depersonalization).
Values and belief system

Hallucinations and Delusions (presence, absence, denied visual but admitted olfactory and auditory, denied but showed signs of them during testing, denied except for times associated with the use of substances, denied while taking medications)

Judgment and Insight (based on explanations of what they did, what happened, and if they expected the outcome, good, poor, fair, strong)

Mood and Affect

Mood or how they feel most days (happy, sad, despondent, melancholic, euphoric, elevated, depressed, irritable, anxious, angry).
Affect or how they felt at a given moment (comments can include range of emotions such as broad, restricted, blunted, flat, inappropriate, labile, consistent with the content of the conversation.

Rapport (easy to establish, initially difficult but easier over time, difficult to establish, tenuous, easily upset)
Facial and Emotional Expressions (relaxed, tense, smiled, laughed, became insulting, yelled, happy, sad, alert, day-dreamy, angry, smiling, distrustful/suspicious, tearful, pessimistic, optimistic)

Response to Failure on Test Items (unaware, frustrated, anxious, obsessed, unaffected)
Impulsivity (poor, effected by substance use)
Anxiety (note level of anxiety, any behaviors that indicated anxiety, ways they handled it)

Lab

Range

Value

Reason Obtained

Risk Assessment:

Suicidal and Homicidal Ideation

(ideation but no plan or intent, clear/unclear plan but no intent) Self-Injurious Behavior (cutting, burning) Hypersexual, Elopement, Non-adherence to treatment

Discharge Plans and Instruction: Placement, outpatient treatment, partial hospitalization, sober living, board and care, shelter, long term care facility, 12 step program

Teaching Assessment and Client / Family Education:

(Disease process, medication, coping, relaxation, diet, exercise, hygiene) Include barriers to learning and preferred learning styles

NRS DX:

Problem Statement:

R/T: (What is the cause of the symptom?)

Manifested by: (specific symptoms)

Short term goal: Create a SMART goal that relates to hospital stay.

Long term goal: Create a SMART goal that is appropriate for discharge.

This is specific to the patient that you are caring for. A list of planned actions that will assist the patient to achieve the desired goal. (i.e. obtain foods that the patient can eat/ likes)

Identify what the patients response or “outcome is to the goal or care that you have provided. i.e. patient ate 45% of lunch)

Was it met or not met there is no partially met.

References:

Nursing question

Communication Strategies & HIPPA

 

  • What electronic communication strategies are used at your organization to communicate with patients?
  • Based on your organization’s HIPAA policy, how is patient privacy and confidentiality protected?

Nursing advocating

Homework for  How can nurses be change agents and advocate for their community? Provide at least two specific examples. 

WEEK 6 MSN 5300

 Mixed methods research designs combine quantitative and qualitative research methods to answer research questions requiring both perspectives. Describe the pros and cons of a mixed method research design. Please include 400 words in your initial post with two scholarly references.

Attached you can find the rubric to following

Treatments for Genitourinary Tract Disorders

  1. Describe urinary tract infection, causes, symptoms and treatment
  2. Discuss treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia
  3. Describe overactive bladder, causes, symptoms and treatment 
  4. Treatment options and recommendations for different STIs (Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and Syphilis)

Connection

It has been documented and demonstrated that a safe work environment that prioritizes process improvement produces positive patient experiences. An effective physician-nurse leader connection is one of the essential elements of this setting. Talk about an instance when you attempted or failed to involve a physician leader in patient experience initiatives. 

What might you have changed or improved upon? 

What worked if you were successful? 

Did any of these initiatives result in safer or better outcomes for patients? Why, or why not?

Objective

 For this Assignment, you will consider the areas you aim to focus on to gain practical experience as an advanced practice nurse. Then, you will develop a Practicum Experience Plan (PEP) containing the objectives you will fulfill in order to achieve your aims. For this practicum experience, be sure to develop goals and objectives that allow you to synthesize knowledge and skills related to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning.