NR548 Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
NR548 Week 1: Reflection on Learning
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 1 Guiding Questions
This week you learned about the PMHNP scope of practice, including medication management and psychotherapy.
Which of the two do you find more interesting? Why?
Do pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy complement each other? Which modality should be implemented first?
How does your state nurse practice act impact your ability to prescribe psychotherapeutic agents?
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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.
SOLUTION
The highlight of this weeks concepts in the scope of practice of the PMHNP has provided necessary insight into the centrality of the pharmacological management of mental disorders as well as the psychotherapeutic component of mental health care. This is why I am most interested in psychotherapy: in psychotherapy, one achieves a
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