COURSE:
NR548 – Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse
General Directions:
- 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.
- 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:
- Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
- Describe the issue or trend.
- Provide an example from practice.
- Discuss how the phenomenon you selected relates to or impacts your selected issue/trend.
- Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:
- Respond to at least one peer.
- Respond to a second peer.
- Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.
- 3. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.
- 4. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the collaboration café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week.
- Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week…………………………………………….$10