Assignment: PRAC 6635 Week 6 Clinical Hour and Patient Logs

Assignment: PRAC 6635 Week 6 Clinical Hour and Patient Logs

Assignment: PRAC 6635 Week 6 Clinical Hour and Patient Logs

Week 6: Neurocognitive, Neurodevelopmental, Eating, and Somatic Symptom-Related Disorders

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Days 1
Assignment: Clinical Hour and Patient Logs

Record your clinical hours and patient encounters in Meditrek.

This week, you will continue to engage with Meditrek, recording your clinical hours and patient encounters. You will also reinforce your knowledge about assessment and diagnosis of neurocognitive, neurodevelopmental, eating, and somatic symptom-related disorders through the resource selections. As you think about the patients in your clinical setting who may have one of these types of disorders, consider the strategies you would use to facilitate the treatment and management process while providing patient education and support.

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Learning Objectives

Students will:

Describe clinical hours and patient encounters

Learning Resources

Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)

Carlat, D. J. (2017). The psychiatric interview (4th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Chapter 28, “Assessing Neurocognitive Disorders (Dementia and Delirium)”
Chapter 29, “Assessing Eating Disorders and Somatic Symptom Disorder”

HSoft Corporation. (2020). Meditrek: Home. https://edu.meditrek.com/Default.html

Note: Use this website to log into Meditrek to report your clinical hours and patient encounters.

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Recommended:

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Neurodevelopmental disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.).

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Neurocognitive disorders. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.).

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2015). Kaplan and Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Wolters Kluwer.

Chapter 21, “Neurocognitive Disorders”
Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry”

Walden University. (2020). College of Nursing practicum manual: Master of science in nursing (MSN) and post-master’s certificate programs. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/formsanddocuments

Walden University Field Experience. (2020a). Field experience: College of Nursing.  https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/fieldexperience/son/home

Walden University Field Experience. (2020b). Student practicum resources: NP student orientation. https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/StudentPracticum/NP_StudentOrientation

Assignment: Clinical Hour and Patient Logs

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Clinical Hour Log

For this course, all practicum activity hours are logged within the Meditrek system. Hours completed must be logged in Meditrek within 48 hours of completion to be counted. You may only log hours with Preceptors that are approved in Meditrek. Students with catalog years before Spring 2018 must complete a minimum of 144 practicum hours. Students with catalog years beginning Spring 2018 must complete a minimum of 160 practicum hours. You may not complete your hours sooner than 8 weeks.

Each log entry must be linked with an individual practicum learning objective or a graduate program objective. You should track your hours in Meditrek as they are completed.

Your clinical hour log must include the following:

Dates
Course
Clinical Faculty
Preceptor
Total Time (for the day)
Notes/Comments–including the objective to which the log entry is aligned

Patient Log

Throughout this course, you will also keep a log of patient encounters using Meditrek. You must record at least 80 patients by the end of this practicum.

The patient log must include the following:

Date
Course
Clinical Faculty
Preceptor
Patient Number
Client Information
Visit Information
Practice Management
Diagnosis
Student Notes- Students must include a brief summary/synopsis of the patient visit—this does not need to be a SOAP note; however, the note needs to be sufficient to remember your patient encounter

Record your clinical hours and patient encounters in Meditrek.
What’s Coming Up in Week 7?

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Next week, you will complete another comprehensive psychiatric evaluation and case presentation on a clinical patient that you examined during the last 2 weeks. This should be a patient who presented with any disorder other than the one you selected for your Week 5 presentation. Additionally, you will continue your clinical hour and patient logs in Meditrek. You will also review resource selections that support your assessment and diagnosis of schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, and medication-induced movement disorders.

Next Week

To go to the next week:

Week 7