This course focuses on the major principles and skills to conduct a psychiatric mental health assessment across the lifespan. Clinical interviewing skills, eliciting important information, and developing a therapeutic rapport with patients and families are foundational knowledge and skills. Students will learn components of the psychiatric evaluation, including psychiatric review of symptoms and mental status examination, and the development of differential diagnoses and diagnostic formulation. Integrating laboratory findings and medical history into the psychiatric evaluation and utilizing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines will be emphasized. This course will also incorporate theories and practice of diversity and inclusion as it relates to the biopsychosocial and cultural understanding of mental illness.
Prerequisite: GNUR 425 Advanced Health Assessment Across the Lifespan.
Outcomes: At the successful completion of the course, students will be able to: 1) Elicit a comprehensive psychiatric health history and mental health assessment; 2) Distinguish assessment features, interviewing techniques, and legal/ethical aspects for children, adolescents, older or cognitively-impaired adults, and other special populations; 3) Integrate medical history and laboratory findings into differential diagnoses and diagnostic formulation; 4) Apply critical thinking skills and diagnostic reasoning with the use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines across the lifespan; 5) Identify risk and protective factors, vulnerability, and areas of mental health resilience for patients, families, and communities.
Prerequisite: GNUR 425 Advanced Health Assessment Across the Lifespan.
Outcomes: At the successful completion of the course, students will be able to: 1) Elicit a comprehensive psychiatric health history and mental health assessment; 2) Distinguish assessment features, interviewing techniques, and legal/ethical aspects for children, adolescents, older or cognitively-impaired adults, and other special populations; 3) Integrate medical history and laboratory findings into differential diagnoses and diagnostic formulation; 4) Apply critical thinking skills and diagnostic reasoning with the use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines across the lifespan; 5) Identify risk and protective factors, vulnerability, and areas of mental health resilience for patients, families, and communities.