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