Access the GCU Mission and Vision Statements, located on the GCU website: http://www.gcu.edu/about-gcu/university-snapshot.php  As educators, you are responsible for developing curriculum that meets not only students’ needs, but also the needs of various stakeholders, such as your institution, regulatory agencies, and the community at large. Review GCU’s Mission and Vision Statements and discuss how you think the curriculum in this nursing program reflects the institution’s mission and vision, especially in regards to Christian Worldview. Additionally, discuss the challenges inherent in developing curriculum that must meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.  To be done in 400-500 words and at least 2-3 references

Mood disorders can impact every facet of a human being’s life, making the most basic activities difficult for patients and their families. This was the case for 13-year-old Jeanette, who was struggling at home and at school. For more than 8 years, Jeanette suffered from temper tantrums, impulsiveness, inappropriate behavior, difficulty in judgment, and sleep issues. 

As a PNP working with pediatric patients, you must be able to assess whether these symptoms are caused by psychological, social, or underlying growth and development issues. You must then be able recommend appropriate therapies. 

This week, as you examine antidepressant therapies, you explore the assessment and treatment of three populations: pediatrics, adults, and geriatrics. The focus of your assessment tool, a decision tree, will specifically center on one of the most vulnerable populations, pediatrics. Please remember, you must also consider the ethical and legal implications of these therapies. You will also complete a Quiz on the concepts addressed throughout this module. 

Assignment- Decision tree 

Required: media file within classroom  (https://cdnfiles.laureate.net/2dett4d/Walden/NURS/6521/05/mm/decision_trees/week_02/index.html) 

You will write a formal (APA formatted) paper no more than 5-6 pages long addressing the media file as directed in the classroom directions

Assignment: Assessing and Treating Pediatric Patients With Mood Disorders

When pediatric patients present with mood disorders, the process of assessing, diagnosing, and treating them can be quite complex. Children not only present with different signs and symptoms than adult patients with the same disorders, they also metabolize medications much differently. Yet, there may be times when the same psychopharmacologic treatments may be used in both pediatric and adult cases with major depressive disorders. As a result, psychiatric nurse practitioners must exercise caution when prescribing psychotropic medications to these patients. For this Assignment, as you examine the patient case study in this week’s Learning Resources, consider how you might assess and treat pediatric patients presenting with mood disorders.

To prepare for this Assignment:

· Review this week’s Learning Resources, including the Medication Resources indicated for this week.

· Reflect on the psychopharmacologic treatments you might recommend for the assessment and treatment of pediatric patients requiring antidepressant therapy.

The Assignment: 5 pages

Examine Case Study: An African American Child Suffering From Depression. You will be asked to make three decisions concerning the medication to prescribe to this patient. Be sure to consider factors that might impact the patient’s pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic processes.

At each decision point, you should evaluate all options before selecting your decision and moving throughout the exercise. Before you make your decision, make sure that you have researched each option and that you evaluate the decision that you will select. Be sure to research each option using the primary literature.

Introduction to the case (1 page)

· Briefly explain and summarize the case for this Assignment. Be sure to include the specific patient factors that may impact your decision making when prescribing medication for this patient.

Decision #1 (1 page)

· Which decision did you select?

· Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).

· Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #2 (1 page)

· Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).

· Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Decision #3 (1 page)

· Why did you select this decision? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· Why did you not select the other two options provided in the exercise? Be specific and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

· What were you hoping to achieve by making this decision? Support your response with evidence and references to the Learning Resources (including the primary literature).

· Explain how ethical considerations may impact your treatment plan and communication with patients. Be specific and provide examples.

Conclusion (1 page)

Summarize your recommendations on the treatment options you selected for this patient. Be sure to justify your recommendations and support your response with clinically relevant and patient-specific resources, including the primary literature.

Note: Support your rationale with a minimum of five academic resources. While you may use the course text to support your rationale, it will not count toward the resource requirement. You should be utilizing the primary and secondary literature..

Reminder : The College of Nursing requires that all papers submitted include a title page, introduction, summary, and references.

 There are many community health programs that can enhance the community empowerment. 

As a community health nurse have you been able to identify any community health programs that relate to childrens health issues? 

And, how can you assess if that particular community health program acted as empowerment to the community? 

Must be in APA

Must be one page long and Must include at least two peer reviewed nursing journal articles 

 

The effective nurse educator is able to use student learning needs to create specific and measurable learning outcomes for a lesson or curriculum.

The purpose of this assignment is to create a learning needs assessment in order to determine learning outcomes for the topic identified for the student’s education focus.

Part 1: Develop a short needs assessment of 10-20 open-ended or closed-ended questions for a learning needs assessment related to your education focus to administer to your practicum audience. Administer a learning needs assessment in your practicum setting. This data will be used to develop your lesson plan in Topic 8 assignment.

Part 2: To accompany your assessment, write a 350-500 word data collection plan with the following information:

1. Explanation of data collection techniques such as the format and how you will administer the learning needs assessment to your students.
2. Description of how you will use the data collected from this learning needs assessment.

Submit both parts to the assignment dropbox.

Cite one or two peer reviewed/scholarly resources in your paper.

While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and documentation of sources should be presented using APA formatting guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.

This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.

You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. A link to the LopesWrite technical support articles is located in Course Materials if you nee

 Teamwork

A form of interdisciplinary collaborative care that I have seen is when I am at work. The team comes together as one to include lab techs, Oncologist, RN, schedulers and our radiology team, research team. Every once in a while I am fortunate enough to shadow the Oncologist which is a great opportunity for me as a nursing student to see the entire process. In this case the doctor had recommended that this patient have a CT scan done today in the clinic and also wanted the patient to get scheduled for a thoracentesis. He had asked me to put in an order for additional blood work since we already had labs done on her. I was able to put in the order and inform our lab techs that we added it on and needed to use the “just in case” tube.  Once the doctor was done with this patient he had sent in his RN to go over what the chemotherapy drugs and how the remainder of the day would go for her. I walked her over to the scheduler to get the patient scheduled for a CT and the thoracentesis. Once our CT tech was available I walked the patient and her family over there before she headed over for the thoracentesis.     

          The patient was able to move from one area in the clinic to another with a very smooth transition and her needs were met. Our schedulers will sit with the patient and schedule the upcoming appointments and any outside appointments that the Oncologist has ordered making it easier (typically) on the patient. As a new nurse I don’t think I would have done anything differently as the patient didn’t have to travel all around and the RN even provided her with a new patient portfolio with all the resources she will need at this time. adding to my original post. As I had stated in my scenario is that the patient was able to move throughout the clinic smoothly with all of the team members she was working with and we too were able to communicate efficiently. In one of our reading assignments for the week, Patricia Yoder-Wise (p321) states that “teams are critical for patient safety because they encourage frequent and ongoing communication and create a safety net.” I read that and I think about when a patient is at our clinic or just in general and how crucial interdisciplinary collaborative care is. If one member misses something when meeting with the patient there are others involved in the care vs just one nurse who could be very distracted during that interaction.

Reference

Yoder-Wise, P. (2015). Leading and managing in nursing 6th edition. St. Louis, MO. Elsevier Mosby. retrieved from https://ambassadored.vitalsource.com

Respond to the discussion above.