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NU664C Primary Care of the Psychiatric Mental Health Client I

Week 1 Discussion

Role and Scope of Practice of PMHNP

The Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP) fills a unique space in the healthcare environment.

Research your state's current scope of practice for the role of PMHNP.

Do these regulations present a barrier to mental health care?

What groups or cultures do you see most impacted by your states' current scope of practice regulations?

 

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Week 2 Discussion

Developmental Theories

Knowledge and application of development theory constitutes a foundational component of the PMHNP role. You will need to expand your knowledge of theories for professional practice. This week you will choose an attachment, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic, or biological developmental theory.

For this discussion forum, using your chosen theory, identify what happens as individuals move through developmental stages. Address the following in your initial post:

How can interruptions in the achievement of developmental stages affect an individual?

According to your theory, identify the developmental vulnerabilities that could precipitate mental health symptoms.

 

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Week 3 Discussion

DQ1 What Factors Influence Self-Injurious Behavior?

Initial Post

Review the Self-Harm website.

Watch the videos:

https://youtu.be/HnQOTP30ve8

https://youtu.be/0JjYINIU9hQ

5 Not Obvious Signs of Self Harm (4:16 minutes)

5 Not Obvious Signs of Self Harm Video Video Transcript

Self Harm: What is it About? (12:00 minutes)

Self Harm: What is it About? Video Transcript

Self-injurious behavior is a manifestation of emotion-focused coping.

Discuss some causes that may explain why youth engage in self-injurious behaviors.

Choose one of the self-injurious behaviors that interests you.

Discuss what the research says about the etiology or the causative factors for these behaviors.

What evidence-based treatment modalities have been recognized as helpful in managing these behaviors?

DQ2 Share Coping Strategy with Peers

For this discussion, you create a 3-5 minute video explaining a coping strategy that you have successfully used to navigate stressful life events, such as living through a pandemic and/or attending graduate school. Research the evidence behind your coping strategy, explain the neurobiological implications, and recommend how this strategy can be used across the lifespan.

Use these instructions to record your video:

Open the Zoom Tutorial to use for video recordings.

Upload your recording as an unlisted video on YouTube. Important: It is your responsibility to ensure that your link is active and working. It is highly recommended that you play back your video from a different device than the one you used to upload to YouTube to ensure that it works properly.

To upload your YouTube video URL to this assignment:

Create a Word document properly named to associate with the assignment.

Copy and paste the YouTube URL into the Word document.

Please make certain your video is in MP4 format and that your video is not a narration of PowerPoint slides. Your video should be of yourself presenting your coping strategy while creating a conversational atmosphere with your peers. You might consider asking your peers some general questions about your coping strategy that could be included in their reply posts.

Please include three to five scholarly references that you used to gather your evidence. You will upload your list of references and your video to Week 3 Assignment 1: Coping Strategy, where you will also find the grading rubric.

 

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Week 4 Discussion

Therapeutic Communication Skills

Discuss the problems/barriers that can arise for the topic you have chosen.

Identify how these problems/barriers can interfere with therapeutic communication.

Discuss how this aspect of therapeutic communication might change to enhance alliance building with individuals who are another culture (choose one).

 

 

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Week 5 Discussion

Conducting a Mental Status Exam

Please view and select one of the patients depicted in the following videos. Both patients have different diagnoses and presentations—the diagnosis is apparent from the titles and not the focus of the assignment.

The purpose of this assignment is to evaluate the patient and write up a mental status exam on what you observe in the video that you choose.

Your initial post should identify which video you have chosen and should include a detailed mental status exam write-up of that patient. The intent of this exercise is to help you to develop your skills in the assessment of a patient’s mental status and documentation of the mental status exam.

Please watch the following video clips and write up a mental status of the patients:

MINI Screening for Mood, Anxiety or Psychotic Disorder (28:00 minutes)

https://youtu.be/vP2ao0Y-9eA

MINI Screening for Mood, Anxiety or Psychotic Disorder Video Transcript

Mental State Examination: Simulated Patient (6:59 minutes)

https://youtu.be/VCXshnlkAzE

Mental State Examination: Simulated Patient Video Transcript

 

NU664C Primary Care of the Psychiatric Mental Health Client I

Week 6 Discussion

Writing Treatment Notes

Initial Post

Watch the following video:

Psychiatric Interview and Mental Status Exam (25:06 minutes)

https://youtu.be/pF12xCtHWwc

Psychiatric Interview and Mental Status Exam Video Transcript

Using the readings and references, write a complete SOAP note for this patient in the proper format.

Post the SOAP note to this discussion board for your peer review.

Your post should include a subjective and objective section with correct patient information, an explanation of differential diagnoses, and a comprehensive treatment plan which incorporates both psychosocial interventions as well as a medication plan, if indicated, with collateral information and patient education.

Use appropriate scholarly references and APA format.

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Week 7 Discussion

Health Initiatives

Watch the video clip below:

Overcoming barriers to mental health care and stigma in communities of color

Video Transcript

Briefly describe the availability of and access to mental health care in your community and geographical area.

How has the Covid-19 Pandemic revealed equity issues in certain communities?

What do you see as the greatest barrier to access and how do you feel this would be best addressed? Be specific in regard to addressing this issue in your “community" or geographical area. Do you believe that private or public entities are best suited to address this? How do other countries address these issues?

 

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Week 8 Discussion

Suicide PSA Proposal Share

The purpose of this discussion forum is to allow students to share their PSA Proposals with each other. When you have completed your PSA Proposal, please upload it to this discussion forum. Replies are optional but please feel free to leave comments and ask questions of each other.

 

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Week 9 Discussion

Psychotherapeutic Strategies

In your initial post, discuss the clinical parameters for identifying, assessing, and using psychotherapeutic strategies with people who have experienced trauma. Include research and education implications related to the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner’s approach to the treatment of people who have experienced trauma and/or been diagnosed with a personality disorder.

 

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Week 10 Discussion

Group-Facilitated Discussion 1 - Group 1

This is a student-led discussion.

 

Please review the Week 7 Get Started: Group-Facilitated Communication Board and Instructions for assignment guidelines for this discussion to ensure that you have met all the criteria.

The facilitating group should choose one member from their group who will be responsible for the initial post.

On Day 1 of this week, the chosen group member will create an initial post that is to include the group's discussion prompts, resources, and the instructions for what your classmates are to do with the resources.

During this week, each member of your group is to participate in the facilitation of the discussion. This means making certain that everyone is engaged, questions from students are being answered, and the discussion is expanding.

It is the expectation that the facilitating group will address all initial peer response posts by Day 7.

 

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Week 11 Discussion

Group-Facilitated Discussion 1 - Group 2

This is a student-led discussion.

Please review the Week 7 Get Started: Group-Facilitated Communication Board and Instructions for assignment guidelines for this discussion to ensure that you have met all the criteria.

The facilitating group should choose one member from their group who will be responsible for the initial post.

On Day 1 of this week, the chosen group member will create an initial post that is to include the group's discussion prompts, resources, and the instructions for what your classmates are to do with the resources.

During this week, each member of your group is to participate in the facilitation of the discussion. This means making certain that everyone is engaged, questions from students are being answered, and the discussion is expanding.

It is the expectation that the facilitating group will address all initial peer response posts by Day 7.

 

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Week 12 Discussion

Group-Facilitated Discussion 1 - Group 3

This is a student-led discussion.

Please review the Week 7 Get Started: Group-Facilitated Communication Board and Instructions for assignment guidelines for this discussion to ensure that you have met all the criteria.

The facilitating group should choose one member from their group who will be responsible for the initial post.

On Day 1 of this week, the chosen group member will create an initial post that is to include the group's discussion prompts, resources, and the instructions for what your classmates are to do with the resources.

During this week, each member of your group is to participate in the facilitation of the discussion. This means making certain that everyone is engaged, questions from students are being answered, and the discussion is expanding.

It is the expectation that the facilitating group will address all initial peer response posts by Day 7.

 

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Week 13 Discussion

Group-Facilitated Discussion 1 - Group 4

This is a student-led discussion.

Please review the Week 7 Get Started: Group-Facilitated Communication Board and Instructions for assignment guidelines for this discussion to ensure that you have met all the criteria.

The facilitating group should choose one member from their group who will be responsible for the initial post.

On Day 1 of this week, the chosen group member will create an initial post that is to include the group's discussion prompts, resources, and the instructions for what your classmates are to do with the resources.

During this week, each member of your group is to participate in the facilitation of the discussion. This means making certain that everyone is engaged, questions from students are being answered, and the discussion is expanding.

It is the expectation that the facilitating group will address all initial peer response posts by Day 7.

 

NU664C Primary Care of the Psychiatric Mental Health Client I

Week 14 Discussion

Group-Facilitated Discussion 1 - Group 5

This is a student-led discussion.

Please review the Week 7 Get Started: Group-Facilitated Communication Board and Instructions for assignment guidelines for this discussion to ensure that you have met all the criteria.

The facilitating group should choose one member from their group who will be responsible for the initial post.

On Day 1 of this week, the chosen group member will create an initial post that is to include the group's discussion prompts, resources, and the instructions for what your classmates are to do with the resources.

During this week, each member of your group is to participate in the facilitation of the discussion. This means making certain that everyone is engaged, questions from students are being answered, and the discussion is expanding.

It is the expectation that the facilitating group will address all initial peer response posts by Day 7.