scope and practice of mental health nurse practitioner

scope and practice of mental health nurse practitioner


Question descriptionAPA 5 sources Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Scope and Standards of Practice. Review the Scope and Standards of Practice from APNA (American Psychiatric Nurses Association). If you are an APNA member you can access the book free of charge. The link in this section will link you to the book but you will have to log in. It is a good idea to join APNA. You can also buy a print copy if you desire; it is inexpensive. The book is not a required reading. I have provided the standards here. The standards are taken directly from APNA Scope and Standards of Practice 2ndedition (2014). Assignment for this module: Take each Standard and give several examples of how you will follow these standards in your practice. Please, only list just a few bullet points to address each standard. Ex: Standard 1: Assessment—what screening tools will you use? Will you meet with the pt and family together or separate or both? How much time will you allow for a new patient eval? As a NP will need to know your scope of practice. You cannot rely on someone else to know your scope. Standard 1: Assessment •Collect and synthesize comprehensive health data that are pertinent to the healthcare consumer’s health and/or situation. Standard 2: Diagnosis •Develop standard psychiatric and substance use diagnoses Standard 3: Outcomes Identification •Identify expected outcomes and the healthcare consumer’s goals for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or to the situation. Standard 4: Planning •Develop a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to assist the healthcare consumer in attainment of expected outcomes. Standard 5: Implementation •Implement the identified plan •Coordinate care delivery •Employ strategies to promote health and a safe environment •Provide consultation to influence the identified plan, enhance the abilities of other clinicians to provide services for the healthcare consumers, and effect change. •Use prescriptive authority, procedures, referrals, treatments and therapies in accordance with state and federal laws and regulations. •Incorporate knowledge of pharmacological, biological, and complementary interventions with applied clinical skills to restore the healthcare consumer’s health and prevent further disability •Provide structures and maintains a safe, therapeutic, recovery-oriented environment in collaboration with healthcare consumers, families and other healthcare clinicians. •Use the therapeutic relationship and counseling interventions to assist healthcare consumers in their individual recovery journeys by improving and regaining their previous coping abilities, fostering mental health, and preventing mental disorder and disability •Conducts individual, couples, group, and family psychotherapy using evidence based psychotherapeutic frameworks and the nurse-client therapeutic relationship Standard 6: Evaluation •Evaluate progress toward attainment of expected outcomes Standard 7: Ethics •Integrate ethical provisions in all areas of practice Standard 8: Education •Attain knowledge and competence that reflect current nursing practice. Standard 9: Evidence-Based Practice and Research •Integrate evidence and research findings into practice Standard 10: Quality of Practice •Systematically enhance the quality and effectiveness of nursing practice Standard 11: Communication •Communicate effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice. Standard 12: Leadership •Provide leadership in the professional practice setting and the profession Standard 13: Collaboration •Collaborate with the healthcare consumer, family, interprofessional health team and others in the conduct of nursing practice Standard 14: Professional Practice Evaluation •Evaluate one’s own practice in relation to the professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations Standard 15: Resource Utilization •Consider factors related to safety, effectiveness, cost and impact on practice in the planning and delivery of nursing services Standard 16: Environment Health •Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner

Assessment 1 Implementing the Nursing Process

Assessment 1 Implementing the Nursing Process


Question description

ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS

Note: Complete the assessments in this course in the order in which they are presented.

PREPARATION

For this assessment, you will develop an ADPIE care plan.
Complete the Vila Health: Implementing the Nursing Process exercise, linked in the Required Resources. This interactive simulation will enable you to interview a patient and gather the information needed for your care plan.
Note: Remember that you can submit all, or a portion of, your draft care plan to Smarthinking for feedback, before you submit the final version for this assessment. However, be mindful of the turnaround time of 24–48 hours for receiving feedback, if you plan on using this free service.

REQUIREMENTS

Develop an ADPIE care plan for the patient.

Care Plan Format

Use the ADPIE Care Plan Template [DOCX] and the Guidelines for the ADPIE Phases [PDF] documents linked in the Required Resources.

Supporting Evidence

Cite 5–7 sources of credible, scholarly or professional evidence to support your care plan. Cite one source for each phase: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Completing the ADPIE Care Plan From a Care Coordinator Point of View

Note: The requirements outlined below correspond to the grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your care plan addresses each point, at a minimum. You may also want to read the Implementing the Nursing Process Scoring Guide to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

  • Obtain subjective (personal) data and objective (independent) data from the patient.
    • Assess the quality of the data.
    • Consider psychological, sociocultural, spiritual, and economic barriers, lifestyle factors, and other elements that become relevant during the interview.
  • Evaluate the patient’s experiences or responses to actual or potential health problems or life processes.
    • Make three nursing diagnoses, exercising sound clinical judgement.
    • What evidence supports your conclusions?
  • Set measurable, achievable, short- and long-range, patient-centered goals or outcomes for nursing interventions, based on patient feedback, that adhere to legal and ethical standards of care.
    • What needs to happen for the patient to get better?
    • How will you effectively provide patient-centered care, while addressing identified goals, using professional standards of practice?
    • What are your legal and ethical guidelines?
    • How will you ensure (or advocate) that provided care is within the realm of the patient’s consent for care?
    • What assumptions or uncertainties are inherent in your goals or outcomes?
    • Consider possible alternate perspectives and conflicting evidence in formulating your goals or outcomes.
  • Select unbiased, collaborative interventions to help meet the identified goals and outcomes for the patient.
    • What is your rationale for selected interventions?
    • What assumptions underlie your proposed interventions?
    • How will you implement selected interventions to help meet established goals or outcomes?
  • Describe the expected outcomes of the care plan.
    • What factors could create potential uncertainties and necessitate adjustments to care?
  • Write clearly and concisely, using correct grammar and mechanics.
    • Express your main points and conclusions coherently.
    • Proofread your writing to minimize errors that could distract readers and make it more difficult for them to focus on the substance of your evaluation.
  • Support main points, claims, and conclusions with relevant and credible evidence, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
    • Is your supporting evidence clear and explicit?
    • How or why does particular evidence support a claim?
    • Will your audience see the connection?
Additional Requirements

Be sure that:

  • You have cited 5–7 sources of credible, scholarly or professional evidence to support your care plan, one source for each phase: assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation.

Portfolio Prompt: You may choose to save your care plan to your ePortfolio.

Dorethea Orem theory of Self-Care Deficit theory, writing homework help

Dorethea Orem theory of Self-Care Deficit theory, writing homework help


Question descriptionHow do I complete this assignments including all the requirements?
Theory
Requirements Description of the Assignment: Dorethea Orem theory of Self-Care Deficit theory will be presented as a framework to resolve a problem occurring within one of the  (Chose One) professional areas of leadership, education, informatics, healthcare policy or advance clinical practice.
Heading #1. Introduction:
The introduction for this paper includes:
•  General statements on the idea of Nola Pender Promotion Model being applied to health promotion issues in nursing practice.
• A one-paragraph summary of the selected specific nursing theory is required.
• Information identifying the sections of this assignment.
• References from nursing literature are required.
Heading #2. Description of Issue (Nurse to patient ratio)
The selected issue or concern must be clearly identified as being significant to the professional area of Family Nurse Practitioner The issue or concern must be presented comprehensively, but concisely by answering each of the following questions. Each question must be address
• What is the specific issue or concern being presented?
• Why should the nursing profession care about this issue or concern?
• What does the nursing literature have to say about this issue or concern including its frequency of occurrence?
• Who are the stakeholders or the people affected by the issue or concern? References from nursing literature are required.
Heading #3. Application of Selected Nursing Theory to Issue or Concern:
This section of the assignment focuses on using the selected nursing theory to resolve the described issue or concern. Required information includes:
• Restating the selected nursing theory to be used
• Identification of one strategy useful in resolving the identified issue or concern. • The strategy should be presented in depth with the following information being required:
– A specific description of how the selected nursing theory can help to resolve the issue or concern o A specific and detailed description of the strategy to be used
– A specific and detailed description of how the strategy can be implemented
– A specific and detailed description of one suggestion for future research into either the selected nursing theory or selected issue or concern.
References from nursing literature are required.
Heading #4. Conclusion:
This section provides a summary or review of the key elements of the assignment including the selected nursing theory and its application to the issue or concern.
The concluding statements include self-reflection on the new knowledge gained about applying nursing theory to a professional issue or concern.
Preparing the Assignment Format and Special Instructions
1. Paper length: 6 pages minimum; 8 pages maximum, excluding title page and reference page. Points will be deducted for not meeting these requirements.
2. A minimum of 7 (seven) scholarly references are required. References must be current – not older than 5 years

Role and Setting of FNP

Role and Setting of FNP


Question descriptionFor this assignment, you will research an advanced nursing practice role (YOU MUST USE FAMILY NURSE PRACTIONER) and summarize your findings in a 3- to 5-page paper (excluding the title page, references and appendices):

  • Focusing on the specialty for which you were admitted to South University, select an advanced nursing role to research. (It must be one offered by South University.)
  • According to the NPSGs, distinguish the role as clinical or non-clinical and how it promotes patient safety.
  • Find two research articles and one expert opinion article about this role, and summarize the articles in a 3- to 5-page paper.
  • The articles must be current (not more than five years old).
  • Format your paper, citations, and references using correct APA Style.