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This formational reflective journal is a double-spaced, #12 font, two-page minimum, and three-page maximum assignment.
Goals and Questions for Journals
Approved list of goals to utilize in your journals: The approved list of goals for writing journals appears below. Note that some are semester specific. In most cases one goal per journal is sufficient. Please, no exact repetition of goals.
Goal Development From General to Specific: Goals should ideally start off more “general” and become more “specific” over time. Goals are not to be the same as what you are studying in your theory class at the time.
Part I:  Pick ONE Journal Goal:
A.  Psychiatric Evaluations/Diagnoses Goals:
Completion of a full psychiatric evaluation on an adult, geriatric or pediatric patient.
B.  Medications Goals:
Elaborate upon the principles of action, interaction, and prescribing principles for __________ (list the medication).
Describe the integration of case-based complexities when caring for and prescribing medications for a patient using polypharmacological agents.
Indicate additional options within medication classes with the pros and cons of each choice in relation to the decision made for your particular patient. (e.g.; mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, etc.).
Point out the considerations including possible drug-drug interactions between birth control medications and ____________ (list specific category of medications or a specific medication).
C.  Laboratories Goals:
Indicate when to discontinue or switch a medication based upon a certain laboratory value and why. (E.g.; kidney, liver, CBC, thyroid, etc.)
Discuss thoroughly why and what guidelines are pertinent to the management of patients for which clozapine is prescribed and implications for a patient on Clozaril (or other critical laboratory value for medication)
Interpret the application of laboratory values when prescribing ________ (for a certain drug or category of medication).
Part II:  Writing the Journal Entry:
JOURNAL QUESTIONS
(Write out the question number and the question, then answer the question and follow the rubric below)
State your goal/learning objective for this unit’s clinical experience?
What academic sources did you read on this topic, and what were the notable findings? (These should be other than your course textbooks).
How did the knowledge you obtained inform one additional area of patient care (such as medications, diagnosis, laboratory findings, cultural issues, developmental theory, etc.)?
How would you use the information that you have learned to educate a patient who is uninformed on this topic?
What were the challenges you faced in integrating this information into the care of a patient you saw during this unit’s clinical experience?