NR548 Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
NR548 Week 5: 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 5 Guiding Questions
This week you learned about the mental status exam.
Which element of the mental status exam do you think you will find most challenging?
Were any of the descriptive terms new to you?
Have you observed any of the less common speech terms in your role as a nurse such as staccato or pressured speech?
Include the following sections:
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
By summarizing MSE which is the focus of this week, I have gained enhanced appreciation of its importance in psychiatric assessment. The part of the MSE that is most difficult for me is to distinguish and qualify the changes in thought content, processes, or organization properly, for example, with regard to tangentiality or circumstantiality. Although these terms are not, in
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