NR548 Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
NR548 Week 3: 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 3 Guiding Questions
This week you learned about the goals of psychiatric interviewing. You will meet many clients who may look, think, or behave very differently than you. Everyone has biases; people are sometimes unaware of some innate or learned biases.
What action steps can you take to identify any biases you currently hold?
What action steps can you take to prevent any bias from impacting your goal of establishing a therapeutic relationship with your clients?
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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 focus on the psychiatric interviewing this week has highlighted what it means to be conscious of self and prejudice to foster positive rapport with clients. Explaining what kind of clients, we can expect to have raised awareness of the different people I may have to work with where their perceptions will differ from mine. These findings were relevant because prejudice, conscious or unconscious, often influences contacts and may hinder clients ease and confidence. Realizing that
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