Managing Bipolar and Impulse Disorders Submission Instructions: Your initial post should be at least 500 words, formatted, and cited in current APA style with support from at least 2 academic sources.  Your initial post is worth 8 points. You should respond to at least two of your peers by extending, refuting/correcting, or adding additional nuance to their […]

Interest Groups and Policy Influence The goal of this assignment is to familiarize students with interest groups. Please follow the steps below to complete your assignment.   Selectan interest group (AARP, AHIP, Coalition for Health Services Research, Emergency Nurses Association, Pharma) Discusshow they are pushing their agenda (i.e., mechanisms used to influence policy makers), key […]

SOAP Note – Depression Case Study Ms. Z is a 28-year-old assistant store manager who arrives at your outpatient clinic complaining of sadness after her boyfriend of 6 months ended their relationship 1 month ago. She describes a history of failed romantic relationships, and says, “I don’t do well with breakups.” Ms. Z reports that, […]

Case Study Jill, a 24 y/o Hispanic female arrives in the emergency room where her parents brought her for evaluation. They are worried because she is giving away all of her possessions and says she is planning to move to the South Pole so she can “save the world.” Her parents say that she has […]

SOAP Note – Psychiatric Case A 74-year-old African American woman, Ms. Richardson, was brought to the hospital emergency room by the police.  She is unkempt, dirty, and foul-smelling.  She does not look at the interviewer and is apparently confused and unresponsive to most of his questions.  She knows her name and address, but not the […]