Issues and Trends in Psychiatric Mental Health Practice

Issues and Trends in Psychiatric Mental Health Practice

Collaboration Café

Purpose

The purpose of the graded collaboration café is to engage students with their peers in an interactive dialogue to organize, integrate, apply, and critically appraise knowledge for nurse practitioner (NP) practice. Meaningful dialogue fosters the development of a learning community as ideas, perspectives, and knowledge are shared. This collaboration café supports the professional formation of the nurse practitioner role.   

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes: 

CO 5: Examine the Scope and Standards of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Practice Advanced Practice Competencies. (PO 5) 

Due Date

Initial posts are due to the discussion forum by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. MT. Peer responses are due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. MT. Students must post on a minimum of two separate days. A 10% late penalty will be imposed for discussions posted after the deadline Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. MT, regardless of the number of days late. NOTHING will be accepted after 11:59 p.m. MT on Sunday (i.e., the student will receive an automatic 0).     

Total Points Possible

This collaboration café is worth a total of 80 points.

Preparing the Assignment

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the assignment. Contact your course faculty if you have questions.

General Directions:

  1. Select an issue or trend that impacts psychiatric mental health practice. Examples include ethical issues, mental health treatment disparities, substance abuse, recovery, or wellness issues. 
  2. Select one of the phenomena of concern for psychiatric mental health nurses as described by the American Nurses Association et al. (2022) text on pp. 4-5. 

Source: American Nurses Association, American Psychiatric Nurses Association, & International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurses. (2022). Psychiatric–mental health nursing: Scope and standards of practice (3rd ed.). American Nurses Association.  

Include the following sections: 

  1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail.
    1. Describe the issue or trend.
    2. Provide an example from practice.
    3. Discuss how the phenomenon you selected relates to or impacts your selected issue/trend.
  2. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:
    1. Respond to at least one peer.  
    2. Respond to a second peer.  
    3. Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice. 
  3. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.  
  4. Wednesday Participation Requirement: Provide a substantive response to the collaboration café topic (not a response to a peer), by Wednesday, 11:59 p.m. MT of each week. 
  5. Total Participation Requirement: Provide at least three substantive posts (one to the initial question or topic and two to student peers) on two different days during the week.   

**To see view the grading criteria/rubric, please click on the 3 dots in the box at the end of the solid gray bar above the discussion board title and then Show Rubric.

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