I provided you the a Word doc with instructions and my role in this agency is nurse practitioner. With the information provided please fill out the intake form and send it back to me.
STUDENT INFORMATION: Name:Team:Assigned Role: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INTAKE SUMMARY Client Name: Date Services Initiated: ID # (last four digits of social security number) Address: Gender: Date of Birth Education (underline highest level) (K – 8) (High School) (Some College) (College Degree) (Post Graduate) Employment Status (underline status) (Unemployed) (Retired) (Employed – Part time) (Employed Temporary) (Employed Full-time) (Self Employed) Seeking Change re: employment status? Underline (yes) or (no) Source of Referral (underline source) · Self · Other (please describe) Client Description of Situation (use quotes from the client and behavioral descriptions as much as possible) Client Needs (use quotes from the client and behavioral descriptions as much as possible to validate and support your observations) Client Strengths M4 #1 - Identify Needs and Strengths Instructions: Identify needs and strengths, and discuss draft intake summaries. As you know from reading the first content guide in this module, your agency expects you and your colleagues to practice in a strengths-based, solution-focused way. In this module, you will begin your work with your team mates by identifying your role at the WSCC and the strengths and needs you noted after you reviewed Marv Brown's scenario in Module 3. After you identify strengths and needs, create a draft intake summary, using the form below. Use as much space as you need in the form, save it to your computer, then post it to the discussion. Make sure that you use your client's words by quoting him as often as possible. Below is the intake for to be filled out. My role in this intake is a nurse practitioner. Intake Summary Form The Wallace Stevens Community Center* Agency Mission: The Wallace Stevens Community Center (WSCC) seeks to support, strengthen, and empower adults in the north country by providing them with access to a wide variety of services including medical, mental health, continuing education, housing, career counseling, and temporary financial assistance. Agency Outcome Goals: The adults who are served by the Wallace Stevens Community Center will achieve ongoing stability as evidenced by: · Completing client education goals within 2 years from the initiation of service · Obtaining stable employment within 1 year from the initiation of service · Obtaining stable housing within 3 months from the initiation of service · Achieving physical and psychological wellness or management of chronic medical conditions within 1 year from the initiation of service Agency Description: The Wallace Stevens Community Center (WSCC) provides a broad array of services through its multi-disciplinary staff and its community-based network of agencies and programs. The central office of the WSCC is located in Glens Falls with satellite offices throughout the north country to provide access to services to individuals in remote rural areas. Agency Operations Each office is staffed with a case coordinator, nurse practitioner, career/adult education specialist, financial specialist, mental health counselor and substance abuse counselor. Each office will use the same management information system to demonstrate accountability to its executive board, its funders, its clients and other community stakeholders; to evaluate the efficacy of service delivery at the individual practitioner and organizational levels (whether services enabled clients to reach outcome goals), and to communicate within the agency and externally with key stakeholders and the community. Agency Treatment Approach As a staff member of WSCC, you are expected to work with clients and each other according to the principles of a strengths-based, solution-focused practice. When employing a solution-focused practice: · Clients are given an opportunity to describe their needs and problems. · The service provider assists the client to identify their strengths and resources. · The service provider works with clients to develop well formed goals as soon as possible inviting the client to consider “What will be different in your life when your needs are met and your problems are solved?” · The service provider asks clients to consider a time when their needs were met and their problems were not present. · The service provider assists clients to consider how they can use their strengths and supports to solve their problems. · At the end of each meeting, the service provider summarizes agreements and next steps, including activities to reach goals, and who is responsible for doing what. Agency Treatment Teams Throughout agency involvement, service providers and clients evaluate the progress being made toward reaching satisfactory solutions and meeting needs. As a staff member of WSCC, you are expected to collaborate with your colleagues as a member of a treatment team. Each member of the treatment team will serve the client according to his or her role and specialty. Each member of the treatment team will collaborate with the team and client to identify client needs and strengths. Each team member will work with the client to identify outcomes and activities to achieve them and communicate the goals and progress toward them to the team. Each member of the team will refer clients to community-based agencies as needed. Agency Referral Network The staff of WSCC will supplement the direct service that they provide with referrals to a variety of community-based services including, but not limited to the Adirondack Food Pantry and Fresh Food Network, the Lewis, Washington, St. Lawrence, Warren, Essex, Clinton, Herkimer Counties of Departments of Social Services and Health and Mental Health, Adirondack Community College, United Churches and Synagogues Community Services Center, Volunteers for North Country Wellness, the North County YMCA and YWCA, Volunteers in Service to America, Supporting Our Greatest Resource: Our Neighbors, the North Country Business Association’s not for profit public service agency and Pro Bono Legal Services. This is my role in the agency is a Nurse Practitioner – Responsible for referring patients to a physician for initial diagnosis and treatment. With the client, develop and monitoring a wellness plan to reduce/manage symptoms and to achieve wellness goals M4 Content Guide 1: Strengths-Based, Solution-Focused Practice In the description of your agency in module one, you learned that all Wallace Stevens Community Center staff are expected to use a strengths-based, solution-focused practice approach when working with clients. In traditional helping practice models, workers are the “experts” who tell clients what is wrong with them and how to fix it. In solution-focused practice, clients are the “experts” on themselves and on their families. Given the opportunity, clients can figure out what has worked well for them in the past and what hasn’t worked so well. With the help of a human services worker, clients can identify their strengths and use them to solve problems. In solution-focused practice, human services workers and clients collaborate to identify and define needs, problems, strengths and supports and goals/outcomes. The documentation you create for your client should demonstrate to your client and your agency that you practiced in a solution-focused way by using the client’s own words and describing the behaviors that demonstrate that you collaborated with your clients throughout your involvement with them. Client Intake Client intake is the process of collecting initial information about the new client. An agency worker conducts an interview with the client to find out about the circumstances of their life, including information about their physical and mental health, substance use, housing, education, employment, family background, and social supports. As discussed above, the client's strengths should be included in the intake, along with his or her needs. Intake information should be documented from the client's perspective, using his or her definition of the situation rather than the worker's. Including the client's own words can be helpful. (Note about the case study assignments: For the intake portion of the case study, you should include all information about the client's needs and strengths, even if does not pertain to your specific agency role. You will focus on information more closely related to your role in the Assessment/Treatment Plan, Progress Report, and Discharge Summary). Assessment Assessment refers to the appraisal of the client's situation and it is the first step toward figuring out what resources and interventions the client needs. This involves the client and worker collaborating to create a shared understanding of the situation. Clients often present with multiple needs and strengths and the information obtained during intake must be sorted through and prioritized. What are the client's most urgent problems? What resources are needed in order to help the client move forward? What strengths have helped the client make progress in the past and can those strengths be mobilized now? Because the amount of information about a client can be overwhelming, the worker should focus on the information that is most relevant to the situation at hand (Levine, 2013). Often there are differences between how the worker and the client view the client's problems. However, workers should resist imposing their own interpretation or creating their own definition of the client's situation, as this takes power and a sense of agency away from the client. Clients who feel that their perspectives are not valued are unlikely to remain committed to getting help. We typically think of assessment and problem-definition as processes that take place in the beginning of treatment. While it is necessary to assess client needs and strengths early in order to make decisions about intervention, assessment should be an ongoing process. Workers and clients should assess how the client's situation has changed, progress that has been made, and the client's perception of services throughout the intervention. This will help determine if goals or services need to be adjusted. Goals and Treatment Planning Once an initial assessment has been made, workers and clients use the information to create a treatment plan. The treatment plan is a document that specifies what changes the client hopes to achieve and what services will be delivered in order to achieve them. Treatment plans serve as a "road map" for the client's services at the agency and create markers that help the client and workers determine the degree to which services are helpful. Without clear goals, services may be unfocused and the client may feel aimless. Case Scenario One – Marv Brown Hi. My name is Marvin Brown but most people call me Marv. I am glad that I found your agency. I’ve a lot going on in my life and I hope you can help. I am 29 years old and single. I was discharged from the Army with an honorable discharge. I joined the Army to make money to finish college. I made it through two years of a four year program but I had to drop out because I ran out of money and, I didn’t want to rack up a lot of loan debt. To be honest, I didn’t know what I wanted to study. So, I joined the Army and was stationed to a combat unit in Afghanistan. I had some good experiences and some very bad ones. Sometimes, it’s like I am back in Afghanistan. I have nightmares that are so real I am afraid to go back to sleep. Sometimes, I combine prescription sleeping pills and my antidepressant with beer just to get a little sleep. I know it’s dangerous. Half the time, I feel out of it. I work at a convenience store. The boss told me today that I’ll be fired if I fall asleep on the job one more time. I can’t afford to stay in my apartment, and I am afraid that I will be homeless. My parents say that I can live with them but I don’t want to be a burden. I want my own place. So, that’s it. I told you that I had a lot going on. I heard that you were a community-based, one-stop shopping kind of place. I know that I need help to get my life back on track. I really want to get stabilized so that I can start living again. I want to finish my education, too, and have a career. I just don’t know how and where to start. Additional Information: Mr. Brown’s date of birth is 3/29/1994. He lives on 50 Ten Broeck Rd. in Rensselaer NY 12144. The last four digits of his social security number are 1234. He signed a form authorizing your agency to release information as needed. Agency staff explained the circumstances under which information can be released with consent. Staff also explained the circumstances under which information can be released without his consent. The release expires on 8/28/24. His pronouns are he/his/him.