Assignment: Clinical Logs of Psychiatric Patient
I. Maintain a clinical log. This log should be given to the clinical instructor at the end of each 50 clinical hours. This means that you should turn in 3 logs during your clinical experience.
II. The log should contain psychiatric patient assessments and discussion of the following issues:
Date and Times of each clinical experience during the time frame.
Types of psychiatric patients seen.
Your comprehensive psychiatric patient assessment should include:
i. History, Mental Health Assessment, Diagnosis, Treatment Plan and Rational for each treatment selected.
ii. Any treatments given.
iii. Interpersonal Reaction Recordings for at least one client.
III. Reflect on your clinical experience for the past 40 hours.
i. Discuss your relationship with your preceptor. Are you fulfilling your clinical goals? Types of interactions? How are psychiatric NP's being utilized in this practice?
ii. Evaluate your agency/clinical site. Include information about how the site operates. Discuss your perceptions of practice in this site.
iii. Discuss any factors with facilitated or presented a barrier to your role as an NP.
iv. Self-evaluate and critique your performance during this time period.
v. Reactions to client interactions and responses to treatment.
IV. This log will be used to assess your progress and to give you feedback on your diagnostic skills at the beginning level. Do not hesitate to give information on areas which you feel you could have provided better care or a different type of care. Did you miss something altogether? How did that happen? Critique your performance during this time frame. At this level you should be able to critique your professional practice and give information about how to improve your practice.
Suggestions for Self-Evaluation of Logs:
i. State your clinical objectives for the week. Were your objectives met? If so how? If not, why? Use your written clinical objectives as a guide.
ii. Discuss feelings that relate to your professional practice? Include at least one aspect of professional practice as an NP and one aspect of case management, risk management.
iii. What aspects of your professional practice do you identify as strengths?
iv. What aspects of your professional practice do you identify as needing improvement?
v. What strategies will you use to improve this/these aspects of your practice?
When, where and how will you implement your strategies for improvement.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.