Psychopharmacologic Approaches to Treatment of Psychopathology

Psychopharmacology: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
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Psychopharmacology: Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP)
The essay discusses the role of a Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. The author focuses on their mandate as a PMHNP to ensure a wider cosverage and provide quality mental health care. The article covers attending schools and using fliers to popularize their service and contacting the government for increased funding on mental health services.
PMHNPs should conduct context-specific research to establish an underlying problem that is unique to their place of work. According to Shrivastava et al. (2019), polypharmacy has been a great challenge for community psychiatrists, which shows that mental health is highly dependent on the community and the health practitioners. With this insight, researching the existing sting prescriptions to check their appropriateness would ...