PRAC 6635 Week 7 Clinical Hour and Patient Logs Assignment 1

PRAC 6635 Week 7 Clinical Hour and Patient Logs Assignment 1

PRAC 6635 Week 7 Clinical Hour and Patient Logs Assignment 1

Week 7: Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation and Patient Case Presentation

What do I have to do? When do I have to do it?

Review your Learning Resources.
Days 1–7

Assignment 1: Clinical Hour and Patient Logs
Record your clinical hours and patient encounters in Meditrek.
Assignment 2: Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation and Patient Case Presentation Submit by Day 7.

At your practicum site, you have been strengthening your communication, diagnostic, procedural, and treatment planning skills. This week, you highlight these skills as you present a complete case in a video, just as you did in Week 5. You also continue to track your clinical time and patients in Meditrek.

Your readings this week reinforce your knowledge about assessment and diagnosis of psychotic and medication-induced movement disorders. As you think about the patients in your clinical setting who may have a psychotic or medication-induced movement disorder, 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
Assess patients across the lifespan in mental health settings
Formulate differential diagnoses for patients in mental health settings across the lifespan
Develop a case study presentation based on a clinical patient

Learning Resources

Required Readings (click to expand/reduce)

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

Chapter 27, “Assessing Psychotic Disorders”

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.

Document: Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Template (Word document)

Document: Comprehensive Psychiatric Evaluation Exemplar (Word document)

Recommended:

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Medication-induced movement disorders and other adverse effects of medication. In Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed., text rev.).

American Psychiatric Association. (2022). Schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic 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 7, “Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders”
Chapter 29, “Psychopharmacological Treatment”
Section 29.2, “Medication Induced-Movement Disorders”
Chapter 31, “Child Psychiatry”
Section 31.15, “Early-Onset Schizophrenia”

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 1: 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.