COURSE

NR548 – Psychiatric Assessment for Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner

General Instructions 

Reflect on your readiness to practice as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (PMHNP). Guiding questions are provided or you may write about what you felt was most significant to you for the week.

Week 5 Guiding Questions

This week you learned about the mental status exam.

• Which element of the mental status exam do you think you will find most challenging?
• Were any of the descriptive terms new to you?
• Have you observed any of the less common speech terms in your role as a nurse such as staccato or pressured speech?