Desired Clinical Skills for Students to Achieve
Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills in:
• Recognizing clinical signs and symptoms of psychiatric illness across the lifespan
• Differentiating between pathophysiological and psychopathological conditions
• Performing and interpreting a comprehensive and/or interval history and physical examination (including laboratory and diagnostic studies)
• Performing and interpreting a mental status examination
• Performing and interpreting a psychosocial assessment and family psychiatric history
• Performing and interpreting a functional assessment (activities of daily living, occupational, social, leisure, educational).
Diagnostic reasoning skill in:
• Developing and prioritizing a differential diagnoses list
• Formulating diagnoses according to DSM 5-TR based on assessment data
• Differentiating between normal/abnormal age-related physiological and psychological symptoms/changes
Pharmacotherapeutic skills in:
• Selecting appropriate evidence based clinical practice guidelines for medication plan (e.g., risk/benefit, patient preference, developmental considerations, financial, the process of informed consent, symptom management)
• Evaluating patient response and modify plan as necessary
• Documenting (e.g., adverse reaction, the patient response, changes to the plan of care)
Psychotherapeutic Treatment Planning:
• Recognizes concepts of therapeutic modalities across the lifespan
• Selecting appropriate evidence based clinical practice guidelines for psychotherapeutic plan (e.g., risk/benefit, patient preference, developmental considerations, financial, the process of informed consent, symptom management, modality appropriate for situation)
• Applies age appropriate psychotherapeutic counseling techniques with individuals and/or any caregivers
• Develop an age appropriate individualized plan of care
• Provide psychoeducation to individuals and/or any caregivers
• Promote health and disease prevention techniques
Professional skills:
• Maintains professional boundaries and therapeutic relationship with clients and staff
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to improve clinical practice in mental health settings
• Identifies ethical and legal dilemmas with possible resolutions
• Demonstrates non-judgmental practice approach and empathy
• Practices within scope of practice
Walden University PMHNP PRAC 6665/6675 Clinical Skills List
• Demonstrate ability
Selecting and implementing appropriate screening instrument(s), interpreting results, and making recommendations and referrals
• Demonstrates selecting the correct screening instrument appropriate for the clinical situation
• Implements the screening instrument efficiently and effectively with the clients
• Interprets results for screening instruments accurately
• Develops an appropriate plan of care based upon screening instruments response
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Walden University PMHNP PRAC 6665/6675 Clinical Skills List
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