Assignment: Decision Tree 

For this Assignment, as you examine the client case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat adult and older adult clients presenting symptoms of a mental health disorder.

Examine Case 1: ( click on required media below) You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the diagnosis and treatment for this client. Be sure to consider co-morbid physical as well as mental factors that might impact the client’s diagnosis and treatment.

At each Decision Point, stop to complete the following:

• Decision #1:      Differential Diagnosis
  • Which Decision       did you select?
  • Why did you       select this Decision? Support your response with evidence and references       to the Learning Resources.
  • What were you       hoping to achieve by making this Decision? Support your response with       evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • Explain any       difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #1 and the       results of the Decision. Why were they different?
• Decision #2:      Treatment Plan for Psychotherapy
  • Why did you       select this Decision? Support your response with evidence and references       to the Learning Resources.
  • What were you       hoping to achieve by making this Decision? Support your response with       evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • Explain any       difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #2 and the       results of the Decision. Why were they different?
• Decision #3:      Treatment Plan for Psychopharmacology
  • Why did you       select this Decision? Support your response with evidence and references       to the Learning Resources.
  • What were you       hoping to achieve by making this Decision? Support your response with       evidence and references to the Learning Resources.
  • Explain any       difference between what you expected to achieve with Decision #3 and the       results of the decision. Why were they different?
• Also include how      ethical considerations might impact your treatment plan and      communication with clients and their family.

Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of three academic resources. While you may use the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement.

Required Readings ( Need 3 + references).

American Nurses Association. (2014). Psychiatric-mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

· Standard 12 “Leadership” (pages 76-77)

American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.

· “Personality Disorders”

Gabbard, G. O. (2014). Gabbard’s treatment of psychiatric disorders (5th ed.). Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publications.

· Chapter 68, “Paranoid, Schizotypal, and Schizoid Personality Disorders”

· Chapter 69, “Antisocial Personality Disorder”

· Chapter 70, “Borderline Personality Disorder”

· Chapter 71, “Histrionic Personality Disorder”

· Chapter 72, “Narcissistic Personality Disorder”

· Chapter 73, “Cluster C Personality Disorders

Perry, J. C., Presniak, M. D., & Olson, T. R. (2013). Defense mechanisms in schizotypal, borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic personality disorders. Psychiatry: Interpersonal & Biological Processes, 76(1), 32–52. doi:10.1521/psyc.2013.76.1.32

Rees, C. S., & Pritchard, R. (2015). Brief cognitive therapy for avoidant personality disorder. Psychotherapy, 52(1), 45–55. doi:10.1037/a0035158

Sadock, B. J., Sadock, V. A., & Ruiz, P. (2014). Kaplan & Sadock’s synopsis of psychiatry: Behavioral sciences/clinical psychiatry (11th ed.). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer.

· Chapter 4, “Theories of Personality and Psychopathology” (pp. 151–191)

· Chapter 22, “Personality Disorders” (pp. 742–762)

· Chapter 13, “Psychosomatic Medicine” (pp. 465–503)

Required Media

Laureate Education. (2017a). A woman with personality disorder [Interactive media file]. Baltimore, MD: Author. 

Assignment – Critical Appraisal of Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring

Assignment Prompt

Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring is a conceptual thread in the USU College of Nursing’s curriculum framework. The purpose of this assignment is to offer students the opportunity to be exposed to Human Caring Science while providing students with the skills of critical appraisal of evidence.

1. Students will select one nursing research article that focuses on a study that used Jean Watson’s Theory of Human Caring as a theoretical framework.
2. Students should use as a guide, an appropriate Rapid Critical Appraisal Checklist found in Melnyk & Fineout-Overholt (2019; pp. 708-722).
3. The critiques are to be informal, although correct grammar, spelling, etc., are expected. The critique should include a brief description of the study that was reviewed and should address elements of the study relevant to critique.
4. Students will provide a written critique on a critical appraisal of the elements relevant to the nature of the research study such as type of study, design, quality of the study; and rationale, as well as implications for practice and further research and/or evaluation.

The outline/template for this assignment can be located here.  Please use/follow.

The grade will be based on accuracy, level of content and structure of the document.

Examples of research articles incorporating Jean Watson’s theory  in USU online library:

Durgun Ozan, Y., & Okumus, H. (2017). Effects of nursing care based on

   Watson’s theory of human caring on anxiety, distress, and coping when

    infertility treatment fails: A randomized controlled trial. Journal of Caring

   Sciences, 6(2), 95-109. 

Rossillao, K. (2018).  Caritas education: Theory to practice…2018 

  National Teaching Institute research abstracts presented at the AACN

  National Teaching Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-24, 2018. 

  American Journal of Critical Care, 27(3), e 14 – e15. 

Expectations

• Due: Monday, 11:59 pm PT
• Length: 4-5 pages (including title and reference pages)
• Format: Formal paper in APA 6th ed format
• Citations: If used (not required) cite references according to APA 7th ed.
• File name: Save the file with Student First Name_Last Name_Appraisal

Student needs to know, compare and contrast the different categories of “shock” and the 

medicines used to treat “shock”

write two pages in APA stile with minimum of two referencies. 

Please complete the worksheets. I have also attached the scenarios for the analysis  worksheet 

no more than 21% plagiarims

Research and organize literature for the Interdisciplinary 

Incorporate health outcomes of the health promotion, detection of disease and disease prevention.  Organize an interdisciplinary plan of care for your client and the delivery of safe and effective care. Choose a patient, a gender, a medical condition and a situation of patient condition and their disease process and apply standards that are evidenced based which help support for the protection of your client. 

Incorporate concepts from Care of the Aging weekly powerpoints and the book-Gerontological Nursing and Healthy Aging (Toughy & Jett, 2018).

Paper should be 3 pages not including title and reference page. 

Paper should follow APA guidelines with a minimum of 5 references within 5 year span.

My topic is reasons for attending (or not attending) college

Fast food restaurants continue to come under fire regarding the unhealthy nature of the menu.  Is it even possible to “eat healthy” at a fast food restaurant?  Your challenge is to find out.  Go online and access the menu for your “favorite” fast food place.  Construct a meal plan for the day that does the following:

1) Meets your daily recommended calorie intake allowance.

2) Meets your requirements for being tasty and palatable.  (e.g.  would you actually order it?)

3)  Post your meal plan using the following:

a) total calories

b) total calories from fat, carbs, and proteins

c) total sodium intake

d) total saturated fat intake (g)

You can also use https://nutritiondata.self.com/ to find information if other sources fail.  

Lastly, VOTE!!!  I’d like to see which meal plan gets the most votes.  Voting is based on the “I’d eat that” scale

Can somebody complete this case study paper for me?

Physical Assessment Reflection 

Consider your learning and growth in this course, reflecting upon “aha!” moments.  Create a presentation that discusses the learning that occurred throughout the assessments completed in Shadow Health. Tina  Jones Female 28 yrs with diagnosis of Asthma , dehydration, wound infection and allergic to penicillin.

Additional Instructions:

• All submissions should have a title page and reference page.
• Utilize a minimum of two scholarly resources.
• Adhere to grammar, spelling and punctuation criteria.
• Adhere to APA compliance guidelines.
• Adhere to the chosen Submission Option for Delivery of Activity guidelines.

Submission Options:

Instructions:

Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation

• 8 to 10 slides. Add title and reference slides.
• Follow Rules of 7.