Week 5: Bipolar Disorders I am finally doing everything right. I stayed up all night studying for my final exams and even managed to clean out my closet and order a whole new bedroom from the Internet. I know I…
Week 4: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders I can’t believe that stupid horse lost! My inside man told me it was a sure bet at 20:1 odds. I thought for sure that I would be able to make back the money…
Week 3: Personality Disorders I cannot believe these people. Don’t they know who I am? I deserve better treatment than this. That hostess should have seated me immediately, but I had to wait for 10 minutes and then she put…
Week 1: Psychiatric Assessment of the Adult and Older Adult Many assessment principles are the same for children and adults; however, with adults/older adults, consent for participation in the assessment comes from the actual client and not parents or guardians.…
Week 2: Depressive Disorders I have no one. My wife died suddenly 4 years ago and I know it was my fault. She had been complaining she was sick for a year, but the doctors kept saying it was nothing.…
Week 1: Psychiatric Assessment of the Adult and Older Adult Many assessment principles are the same for children and adults; however, with adults/older adults, consent for participation in the assessment comes from the actual client and not parents or guardians.…
Developing organizational policies and practices The health care issue of concern has been identified as hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP), the second leading hospital-acquire infection and cause of death among critically sick patients (Torres-García et al., 2019). As a preventable issue, the…
Advanced registered nursing graduates are entering the profession at dynamic time when roles and scope of practice are shifting based on developments in legislation and policy in response to the evolving needs of the health care system. Professional nursing organizations…
I believe the Nurse of the Future Nursing Core Competencies were selected as the foundation which we all should follow as our standard nursing practice acts. This established the basics to which we learn to perform; not only as a…
Future scope, role and professional obligations Part 1. Scope of future role as an advanced registered nurse Even as I qualify to be an advanced registered nurse, I aspire to become a nurse educator. I anticipate that a role as…
