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Evidence Based Practice Assignment Analysis

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This assignment will provide evidence and knowledge of understanding the concept of care based on a service user who has a long term condition of mental health and was diagnosed of severe Depression with Psychosis. In order to maintain confidentiality a pseudonym has been used throughout this essay to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 (last modified date June 2011) and the NMC code of confidentiality (2015). I will also reflect and evaluate my own performance as a learner and use the key characteristic of a lone worker in the community. In addition I would discuss how that particular intervention has helped me to understand my own learning needs and also when referring the patient to recommend interventions for reducing risk of depression, to create awareness on how to offer emotional and psychological supports to patient living with depression. It is part of our role as health care professional to safeguard our patients and educate them on the risks involved if they have unhealthy lifestyles and to promote healthy living based on evidence based practice. In this assignment I will demonstrate a patient suffering from severe Depression with Psychosis (This condition causes to experience psychotic symptoms such as seeing, …show more content…

The framework that was used to deliver appropriate care for Igor was the Mental State Examination (MSE), Royal College of Psychiatry (RCP, 2017). MSE is an important part of the clinical assessment process in psychiatric practice. It is a systematic appraisal under the domain of the appearance, behaviour, speech, thought process, thought content, perception, cognition, biological symptoms, insight, mental functioning and overall demeanour of a person. This framework will provide me with a comprehensive background on the patient's medical or psychological

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