Overview
Description
Psychiatric clinical practicum emphasizing clinical interventions, evaluations, and long term treatment management strategies.
Units
Internship Practicum3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Summer
Terms
summer
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify the clinical role of the Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse in diagnostic, treatment, and evaluation processes.
- utilize the psychiatric formulation to set treatment goals and interventions likely to facilitate improvement toward recovery.
- identify, implement, and revise goals for recovery as resources change and level of wellness improves or declines.
- develop role within interdisciplinary teams that illustrates the advanced practice role of the PMH nurse.
- develop advanced clinical judgment evidenced by differential diagnoses, facilitating self-management, and negotiating treatment goals with clients.
- construct treatment plans that include members of clients’ support systems and other health care providers.
- implement therapeutic interventions such as individual, group, or family therapy and evaluate their outcomes.
- develop medication regimens based on diagnosis, symptomatology, allergies, medical history, and past response to medications.