Evaluation of Learning Objectives

Handbook of Psychiatric Emergencies

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To assess the effectiveness of the course material, we ask that you evaluate your achievement of each learning objective on a scale of A to D (A=excellent, B=good, C=fair, D=unsatisfactory). Please indicate your responses next to each learning objective and submit it as part of the course assignment.

1. Categorize psychiatric patients into three groups. A B C D
2. List the factors you should consider while creating the best environment to examine a psychiatric patient. A B C D
3. Describe how the appearance, movement, and speech of a psychiatric patient can help you establish an initial diagnosis. A B C D
4. Provide a differential diagnosis on the basis of circumstantiality and tangentiality. A B C D
5. Explain how thought content can provide insight into a patient's mental status. A B C D
6. Identify four situations in which you may reveal confidential patient information. A B C D
7. Emphasize the importance of documenting all interventions. A B C D
8. Discuss the three basic elements of consent. A B C D
9. List 7 points that should be covered during initial examination to assess a patient's competence. A B C D
10. Identify circumstances under which you may be held liable for harm caused by your patient either to himself or others. A B C D
11. List various common signs and symptoms of delirium. A B C D
12. Describe the mental status and physical findings of alcohol intoxication. A B C D
13. Describe the interpersonal and pharmacologic interventions for alcohol withdrawal. A B C D
14. Describe the management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. A B C D
15. Discuss medicolegal considerations associated with alcoholic emergencies. A B C D
16. Describe the triage approach to drug abuse. A B C D
17. Describe the pharmacologic intervention for opioid withdrawal. Chapter 6: Schizophrenia and Mania A B C D
18. Describe the mental status findings of schizophrenia and mania and provide a differential diagnosis. A B C D
19. List medical disorders that mimic schizophrenia and mania. A B C D
20. Describe the interpersonal interventions for a paranoid and catatonic patient. A B C D
21. Provide a differential diagnosis of violent patients. A B C D
22. Describe the interpersonal interventions a clinician should use when faced with a violent patient. A B C D
23. Discuss legal considerations involved in informed consent, refusal of treatment, dangerousness, and duty to warn or protect intended victims. " A B C D
24. Classify self-destructive patients into three categories. A B C D
25. Identify clinical indicators of high suicide risk. A B C D
26. List major depressive syndromes. A B C D
27. Describe the interpersonal intervention for a nonpsychotic patient with depression. A B C D
28. Describe the management of grief of survivors of a patient who has died unexpectedly A B C D
29. List medical disorders associated with anxiety. A B C D
30. Make a differential diagnosis of panic disorder. A B C D
31. Make a classification of phobias. A B C D
32. Identify phobias, obsessions, compulsions, and P.T.S.D., and provide interpersonal, pharmacologic and educational interventions. A B C D
33. Describe usual staff reactions to domestic abuse. A B C D
34. Identify spousal abuse in patients. A B C D
35. Describe the interpersonal interventions in cases of elder abuse. A B C D
36. Describe the protocol for examining a rape victim. A B C D
37. List signs of physical and sexual abuse. A B C D
38. Describe the runaway behavior of boys and girls. A B C D
39. Identify risk factors for child abuse. Chapter 14: Geriatric Emergencies A B C D
40. Perform mental status and physical findings on a patient with dementia. A B C D
41. Provide interpersonal intervention to the delirious elderly patient. A B C D
42. Identify and differentiate among the most common types of psychoses in the elderly population. A B C D
43. Describe the management of a suspected drug abuser in the emergency psychiatric setting. A B C D
44. Identify malingerers. A B C D
45. Discuss the general, neurologic and other effects of antipsy-chotic, antidepressant, anticonvulsant, and antianxiefy drugs. A B C D