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Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treating Mood, Anxiety, Eating, Sleeping, and Elimination Disorders Across the Lifespan Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treating Mood, Anxiety, Eating, Sleeping, and Elimination Disorders Across the Lifespan In Module 2, you begin to apply all your foundational knowledge to the assessment, diagnosis, and effective treatment of mental health disorders encountered across the lifespan. Beginning…

Assignment: Prescribing for Children and Adolescents Assignment: Prescribing for Children and Adolescents Off-label prescribing is when a physician gives you a drug that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved to treat a condition different than your condition. This practice is legal and common. In fact, one in five prescriptions written today are…

Special Considerations Related to Prescribing for Children and Adolescents Special Considerations Related to Prescribing for Children and Adolescents   There is probably no greater responsibility that the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner assumes than the responsibility of prescribing medications. While patients can be harmed by psychotherapy, the level and intensity of the harm generally does not…

Discussion: Ethical and Legal Foundations of PMHNP Care Discussion: Ethical and Legal Foundations of PMHNP Care Advanced practice nursing in all specialties is guided by codes of ethics that put the care, rights, duty, health, and safety of the patient first and foremost. PMHNP practice is also guided by ethical codes specifically for psychiatry. These…