MSN 675 Northern Kentucky University Nursing Patient Needing Psychiatric Paper – Description
For this assignment, you will watch an assigned video clip that depicts a patient needing
psychiatric/mental health treatment. You then will complete a treatment plan for this patient, following
the attached formatting. You are required to follow APA 7, which includes, a title page, your typed
treatment plan, and a references page. Each video case that is assessed should result in a treatment plan
that is a minimum of 2 pages in length, in addition to the title page and references page. This is a
treatment plan, not a research paper. Follow the rubric guidelines for grading criteria
Just like in practice, there are times when all the preferred information may not be available, yet you still
will need to formulate a treatment plan for the patient. Your treatment plan must include in-text citations
and proper APA 7 formatting.
The following reference materials are required to be utilized and referenced:
– DSM-5
– Course Textbook
– Drug guide of your choice (text or online)
– 1 scholarly peer reviewed journal article, dated within the last 5 years, that supports your
treatment plan. UptoDate is a wonderful site, but it is not considered a scholarly peer
reviewed journal article
Treatment Plan: What to include and how to format the treatment plan
Your Treatment plan should include the following categories:
1. Title page
2. Content of treatment plan (The title of your treatment plan should be on line 1 of page 2).
a. Video # or Discussion Board Prompt #
b. Brief description of the patient
c. Brief explanation of the presenting symptoms
d. Any known medical history, allergies, etc.
e. Your psychiatric diagnosis (supported by the DSM-5).
f. List 3 of the differential diagnosis from the DSM-5, and briefly state why that was
chosen as a differential diagnosis, and not as the main diagnosis. (See course
materials on Differential Diagnosis) (supported by the DSM-5).
g. Suicide and/or homicidal risk assessment (this includes ideation, intent, plan,
means, etc.).
h. What psychiatric tools or scales you used (or that you would use) to help support
your diagnosis (include citations).
i. Medications being ordered
i. Include name of medication(s) and what the med is used for (include
citation)
ii. Include the route, dosage, frequency (include citation)
iii. Include black box warnings or what the pt needs to know/foods to avoid,
etc. (include citation)
j. Non-pharmacological treatments that are being ordered (include citation that
supports these).
k. Any labs or medical tests that need to be completed to rule out organic causes, for
medication monitoring, and so forth (include citation). (include a short line stating
why each lab/test is being ordered)
l. Questions that you would ask to further solidify your diagnosis (brief list)
m. Any further directives/resources for the patient (this would include, follow up with
primary doctor to monitor HTN or diabetes; directives to follow-up with other
members of the comprehensive treatment team; safety plan if you are sending the
pt home and they have suicidal or homicidal thoughts; return for medication
assessment in x number of weeks, etc. This also includes support group and hotline
phone numbers for things like SI and SUD).
3. References Page – include all citations used in the paper, formatted per APA 7, double
spaced and in alphabetical order. References are to include the DSM-5, the course textbook,
a drug book of your choice (text or online), and 1 scholarly journal article reference within
the last 5 years, for each of the videos or discussion board prompts being assessed
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