Tag: Neurological

Identify individual, biological, neurological, physiological, systemic, spiritual, cultural, and environmental factors relevant to the proposed or known diagnosis.

Forrest Gump part 4

Identify individual, biological, neurological, physiological, systemic, spiritual, cultural, and environmental factors relevant to the proposed or known diagnosis.

Describe the character’s disorder and functioning utilizing appropriate assessments.

What did the assessment results completed in Part 2 indicate as a possible diagnosis? How were the assessments selected?

What other assessments have you done or would you recommend for your character client? What were the results? Describe the proposed diagnosis for your movie character client.

What differential diagnoses have been considered? What emergent factors need to be monitored if the character client were to seek ongoing treatment?

What would a counselor working with this client need to consider from a legal and ethical perspective? Utilize legal standards and ethical codes to support your points.

Describe what the process of determining a diagnosis was like for you? What elements of the process were most helpful and why? Least helpful and why? How did the peer and faculty input impact your process?

Discuss characteristic findings for a stroke and how it affects the lives of patients and their families. Discuss the nurse’s role in supporting the patient’s psychological and emotional needs. Provide an example.

Neurological, Perceptual, and Cognitive Complexities

Discuss characteristic findings for a stroke and how it affects the lives of patients and their families. Discuss the nurse’s role in supporting the patient’s psychological and emotional needs. Provide an example.

Select one type of drug therapy (antipsychotic, antidepressant, or antianxiety) and address the following, using headings to match content in each bullet point in your discussion:

Drug Therapies

Psychopharmacology is the field of study focused on the use of medications to impact neurological functioning and behaviors.

Psychotropic medications, used in consultation with medical professionals, are tools to address the symptoms of major psychiatric disorders.

As you learned in your assigned reading from the text in this unit, there are many classes and types of drugs used by medical professionals.

Select one type of drug therapy (antipsychotic, antidepressant, or antianxiety) and address the following, using headings to match content in each bullet point in your discussion:

Specific symptoms and their intensity that would indicate a consultation may be appropriate.

Side effects that may interfere with taking medications as directed.

Potential benefits a partner or family member may notice.