NURS6670 Week 5 Assignment 1

NURS6670 Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Role II

Week 5 Assignment 1

Assignment
1: “Captain of the Ship” Project – Bipolar Disorders

Bipolar
disorders are severe disorders of mood that include both depressive episodes
and expansive, grandiose, or manic episodes. During these times, the person may
engage in activities with little awareness of the consequences because of
accompanying psychosis. A diagnosis of bipolar disorder includes periods of
mania or hypomania and periods of depression where the mood is down, hopeless,
and suicidal. The neurovegetative symptoms of bipolar depression can be
incapacitating. It is also important to differentiate the psychosis of bipolar
disorder from schizophrenia.

In this
Assignment, you will become the “captain of the ship” as you provide treatment
recommendations and identify medical management, community support resources,
and follow-up plans for a client with a bipolar disorder.

Learning
Objectives

Students
will:

• Recommend psychopharmacologic
treatments based on therapeutic end points for clients with bipolar disorders

• Recommend psychotherapy based on
therapeutic end points for clients with bipolar disorders

• Identify medical management needs
for clients with bipolar disorders

• Identify community support
resources for clients with bipolar disorders

• Recommend follow-up plans for
clients with bipolar disorders

To prepare
for this Assignment:

• Select an adult or older adult
client with a bipolar disorder that you have seen in your practicum.

In 3-4
pages, write a treatment plan for your client. In which you do the following:

• Describe the HPI and clinical
impression for the client.

• Recommend psychopharmacologic
treatments and describe specific and therapeutic end points for your
psychopharmacologic agent. (This should relate to HPI and clinical
impression.).

• Recommend psychotherapy choices
(individual, family, and group) and specific therapeutic endpoints for your
choices.

• Identify medical management needs,
including primary care needs, specific to this client.

• Identify community support
resources (housing, socioeconomic needs, etc.) and community agencies that are
available to assist the client.

• Recommend a plan for follow-up
intensity and frequency and collaboration with other providers.

By Day 7

Submit your
Assignment.

Submission
and Grading Information

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