NRNP 6675: PMHNP Care Across the Lifespan II
Welcome to NRNP 6675: PMHNP Care Across the Lifespan II!
Nurse practitioners (NPs) are in high demand. They provide safe, competent, high-quality, and cost-effective healthcare. NPs are increasingly becoming the health partner of choice for many Americans because of their ability to provide comprehensive healthcare and fill gaps and disparities in health prevention and promotion, chronic illness management, and community social needs care. As an advanced practice psychiatric-mental health nurse caring for individuals, families, and communities, you will help fulfill this need.
This course, a continuation of NRNP 6665, has an overarching goal of enhancing your professional development and bridging the transition into advanced practice. To this end, you will review important regulatory, legal, and ethical issues critical to this transition, including certification and state licensure, scope of practice, prescriptive authority, coding/billing, malpractice, and professional ethical responsibilities.
As your last course in your program, you will also focus on reviewing and demonstrating mastery of the body of clinical knowledge for which nurse practitioners are responsible. This includes completing complex case study analyses that allow you to synthesize your prior learning. It also includes gauging your readiness for the national certification exam and actively working throughout the term to prepare for it. You will continue to explore approaches to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for a variety of disorders, and explore best practices for treatment as you recommend psychotherapeutic and psychopharmacologic interventions, health promotion and patient education strategies, and management plans.
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Finally, as you plan your transition to the advanced practice nursing role, it is critical to have professional documents prepared for your career. You will develop your professional cover letter, resume, and portfolio. You will also reflect on nursing competencies and how you will contribute to social change and professional advocacy in your community as a nurse practitioner.
Again, welcome to the course!
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to help nurse practitioner (NP) students synthesize their knowledge and clinical skills in order to provide care to patients with complex health conditions. Continuing from the lifespan approach, students in this final psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP) course build on content and skills from previous courses to develop clinical competence necessary to treat patients across the lifespan in mental health settings. Students explore how to select assessment approaches for patients across the lifespan, formulate differential diagnoses, and apply diagnostic criteria, appropriate diagnostic testing, and diagnostic case formulation. The student will use both psychotherapeutic approaches and psychopharmacologic approaches to develop treatment plans for psychiatric mental health conditions. Classroom activities and case studies enable students to explore the salient nurse practitioner practice issues involved in the delivery of safe, competent, high-quality, and cost-effective care of patients in a dynamic healthcare system. Course assessments emphasize the application of knowledge in the management of patients and collaboration among the advanced practice nurse and the patient, family, and interprofessional healthcare team.
COURSE PREREQUISITESNRNP 6665: Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Care Across the Lifespan I
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMESBy the conclusion of this course, you should be able to:
- Apply knowledge and skills to prepare for certification and licensure as a nurse practitionerAnalyze ethical, legal, and practice issues of advanced practice nursing care in mental health settingsEvaluate patients across the lifespan using focused psychiatric assessmentsDevelop differential diagnoses, using appropriate diagnostic criteria, for patients across the lifespan with mental health disordersEvaluate efficacy of treatment approaches for mental health disorders in patients across the lifespanDevelop comprehensive evidence-based treatment plans for patients across the lifespan with mental health disorders
Course Summary:
| Date | Details | Due |
|---|---|---|
| Wed Aug 30, 2023 | Discussion Topic Week 1: Discussion | due by 10:59pm |
| Sun Sep 10, 2023 | Assignment Week 2: Assignment 1 | due by 10:59pm |
| Assignment Week 2: Assignment 2 | due by 10:59pm | |
| Sun Sep 17, 2023 | Assignment Week 3: Assignment | due by 10:59pm |
| Sun Oct 1, 2023 | Assignment Week 5: Assignment | due by 10:59pm |
| Sun Oct 8, 2023 | Quiz Week 6: Midterm Exam | due by 10:59pm |
| Sun Oct 15, 2023 | Assignment Week 7: Assignment | due by 10:59pm |
| Sun Oct 22, 2023 | Assignment Week 8: Assignment | due by 10:59pm |
| Wed Oct 25, 2023 | Discussion Topic Week 9: Discussion | due by 10:59pm |
| Sun Nov 5, 2023 | Assignment Week 10: Assignment 1 | due by 10:59pm |
| Assignment Week 10: Assignment 2 | due by 10:59pm | |
| Sun Nov 12, 2023 | Quiz Week 11: Final Exam | due by 10:59pm |
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