Identify and describe appropriate screening measures and safety risk assessment procedures in adolescents
Legal Case Study
Please find the essay for this assignment. Include additional materials attached as references and reword paper for 3 pages not counting cover page and references. Please use proper English.
Please review the listed questions.
Identify the defendants AND areas of negligence in this case.
Identify and describe appropriate screening measures and safety risk assessment procedures in adolescents with depression.
Reflect on this case and identify what you would have done differently as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
Review the risk reduction strategies identified in Buppert (2017) pages 306-309, and identify which of the strategies may have reduced the risk of the outcome presented in this case.
What do you think the verdict was and why?
Name: Lucia
Age: 15
Gender: Female
Guardian/parent: Mother
Other details: Hispanic
The family claimed that Prozac should not have been prescribed due to a lack of signs of clinical depression and claimed that the FDA had issued a warning regarding the use of Prozac in adolescents, specifically that Prozac use in adolescents increased the risk of suicidal thinking and behavior.
The psychiatric nurse practitioner claimed that the clinical evaluation for depression supported the diagnosis. The psychiatric nurse practitioner also claimed that the suicide attempt followed a breakup with her boyfriend and a fight with her father and that the medication played no part in the incident.
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