| Description: |
This course is a continuation of the Advanced Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner
Across the Lifespan I didactic course and emphasizes health promotion, disease prevention,
diagnostic reasoning, and management of common and complex illnesses in psychiatric
practice across the lifespan. Evidence-based practice, research, and theory are utilized
to ascertain strategies that are critical to advanced nursing practice for health
promotion and prevention of disease. In addition, learners apply clinical judgment
to develop differential diagnoses and develop and implement an evidence-based plan
of care and therapeutic regimen including psychopharmacology. Concepts related to
efficient patient, provider, and healthcare team communication and collaboration in
addition to diversity, equity and inclusion elements are highlighted. Evidence-based
practice and practice standards guide holistic care, psychopharmacology, and therapy
across the lifespan as individuals, families, and communities. The patient’s sociocultural
background, developmental level, and treatment settings are discussed and considered
in the management of care. |
