Chamberlain NR548 Week 5 Reflection Latest 2024

NR548 Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

Week 5 Reflection

Reflection on Learning

Purpose

The purpose of the graded reflection is to provide the student an opportunity to reflect on learning in the course related to course outcomes, program outcomes, and competencies. Reflective?inquiry?allows for expansion in self-awareness, identification of knowledge gaps, and assessment of learning goals.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

CO 1: Apply advanced practice nursing knowledge to collecting health history information and examination findings for psychiatric mental health patients across the lifespan. (POs 1, 2)

CO 2: Adapt health history and mental status examination to the developmental, gender-related, age-specific, and special population needs of the individual patient. (POs 1, 2)

Due Date

Post should be entered to the Reflection on Learning forum by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT each week.

Students are expected to submit assignments by the time they are due. Assignments submitted after the due date and time will receive a deduction of 10% of the total points possible for that assignment for each day the assignment is late. Assignments will be accepted, with a penalty as described, up to a maximum of three days late, after which point a zero will be recorded for the assignment.

Total Points Possible

This reflection is worth a total of five (5) points.

Preparing the Assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the reflection. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

General Instructions

Reflect on your readiness to?practice?as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). Guiding questions are provided or you may write about what you felt was most significant to you for the week.

Week 5 Guiding Questions

This week you learned about the mental status exam.

Which element of the mental status exam do you think you will find most challenging?

Were any of the descriptive terms new to you?

Have you observed any of the less common speech terms in your role as a nurse such as staccato or pressured speech?

Include the following sections:

Reflection: 

Write 1-2 paragraphs reflecting on your learning for the week. Address the guiding question or relate the reflection to what you found most significant for the week. 

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