A 53-year-old female is accompanied by her husband with a complaint of attempting suicide, fear of sleeping, guilt, and confusion. The husband reports that the Patient was four years ago diagnosed with depression after the death of her son. She was diagnosed with depressive disorder and started on Citalopram 25mg daily. Pt is advised to come back for a review after four weeks

 A minimum of 80 patient encounters are required. ALL patient age populations must be seen across the lifespan (children, adolescents, adults, and older adults) Of those minimum 80 encounters, at least 5 patient encounters must be with age populations of children and adolescents (any combination to total at least a minimum of 5) and at least 5 patient encounters must be with age populations of adults and older adults (any combination to total at least a minimum of 5).

Case Study-Summary Case Notes


• Types of Patients: Patients receiving care for psychiatric, and substance use disorders across the life span to include children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. *
• Types of Services: Assessment and diagnosis of children, adolescents, adults, and older adults with acute and chronic psychiatric and substance use disorders.
• Possible Site Choices: Private practice, community psychiatric and/or counseling center, crisis centers, drug/alcohol rehabilitation center, college counseling center, employee assistance program (EAP) sites, or assisted living/Alzheimer’s facility, hospital or specialty care facility, jails/prison, or any other site where psychiatric assessment and diagnosing takes place (to be determined on an individual basis).

Assignment:

• Student Notes- Students must include a brief summary/synopsis of the patient visit—this does not need to be a SOAP note; however, the note needs to be sufficient to remember your patient encounter. Each note needs to be more than 50 words.

For example, I need 80 summary case notes to submit for my curriculum base on psychiatric care.

Note should look like:

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