NR548 Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
NR548 Week 1 Collaboration Café: Issues and Trends in Psychiatric Mental Health Practice
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). Psychiatricmental 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.
SOLUTION
In todays psychiatric mental health nursing practice, concerns and factors that predominate are; ethical issues, mental health issues in treatment, substance abuse, and mental wellness and recovery models. One of these developments is the variation in the availability of mental health care to diverse people, which is an indication of other societal and cultural issues of the population. There are racial, ethnic, and SES disparities regarding mental health treatment that indicate that such people have unequal access to appropriate mental treatment. Such deficits can
