Week 11 Discussion: The Comprehensive Physical Exam Behavior and Mental Health
Week 11 Discussion: The Comprehensive Physical Exam Behavior and Mental Health
Discussion Guidelines
Initial Post
Utilizing the Greeny article (in the Learning Materials for this module), select two of the four given “crucial conversations” healthcare professionals struggle with that contribute to patient harm and unacceptable error rates. Describe how you have witnessed/observed these in practice and what you can do to stop/deter them.
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Response Post
Reply to the initial posts of at least two classmates.
Submission
Post your initial and follow up responses and review full grading criteria on the Discussion 11.1: Crucial Conversations page.
Week 11: The Comprehensive Physical Exam (cont.)—Behavior and Mental Health
Welcome to the eleventh week of Advanced Physical Assessment. During this lesson, you will continue to coordinate the comprehensive physical exam. The focus of this week is the behavior and mental status assessment. Please keep in mind that because there is a psychiatric nurse practitioner specialty degree, this unit will provide only a brief overview of the psychiatric assessment, as family nurse practitioners do not typically perform this focused exam in detail. You will look different exam techniques and then practice your exam assessment. You will review proper terminology for identifying and then appropriately documenting those subjective and objective findings. You will also focus on the seven crucial conversations that healthcare providers struggle with.
Review a list of all items due this week in your course syllabus.
Lesson 1: Behavior and Mental Health Status
During this lesson, you will continue to coordinate the comprehensive exam, focus on the behavior and mental status, look at different exam techniques, and review proper terminology for objective findings. Please note that this is just a brief summary of mental and behavioral health. These topics require far more attention from specialists and will only be covered in a general sense in this course.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
Begin the practice of sequencing and coordinating the comprehensive physical exam of the adult patient regarding mental and behavioral health status.
Identify the anatomical landmarks of the human body of mental and behavioral health.
Correlate examination techniques of the patient’s mental and behavioral status using the correct sequence and anatomical landmarks in an adult patient.
Use correct terminology to record objective components of the physical examination findings.
Before attempting to complete your learning activities for this week, review the following learning materials:
Learning Materials
Read the following in your Bates’ Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking textbook:
Chapter 9, “Cognition, Behavior, and Mental Status”
Additional Required Resources:
Also read the following article:
Grenny, J. (2009). Crucial conversations: The most potent force for eliminating disruptive behavior. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 32(1), 58–67.
This reading will help you perform a mental status assessment, recognize pertinent positives and negatives related to that system, and also document appropriately.