My name is Dr. Priscilla Asonye. I have extensive knowledge in health care, having been an NP since 24 Years. I have Dual Certification, and Adult, NP, PMHNP and also have PhD in Public education. Given my backgroud, I have been able to treat both medical and Psychiatric adult patients. Given the fact that psych is my most recently acqured knowkledge, I have been more focused with dealing with more psych than medical patients. With regards to psych I mostly have been dealing with peopl with Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia(psychosis) Bipolar D/O and Insomnia via hybrid method( In facility and Tele) With these population, evalute, Diagnose, recommend/ prescribe medication/intervention and Follow up with these. Most time I work in collaboration with family members and PCP depending on situation. I am very passionate with my patients and making a difference in people's lives is my life joy.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
In my first session, with any pt, my expectation, is to be able to know each other, establish some kind of relationship in relation to his/her illness. Be able to undersand pt's history & possible diagnosis and medication treatment depending on the patients case.
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
As a provider one of my greatest strength is my ability to listen to my patient. Being able to listen carefully and attentively to a patient with mental illness is very vital, to having a good understanding to what is going on with a patient especially in a situation where you are not around this pt to observe physical appearnce and smell around the environment. My other strenght is my empthy, as a person, I have gone through many situations, that has help me to know importance of having empathy with other people. It is difficult to understand people and treat them well without putting your self in their shows. This strenght has help me much in my career with my patients
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
As indicated, above, majority of the patients I have taken care of and I love to take care of are patients with Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar disoder, Schizophrena, Insomnia.
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Culturally Sensitive Therapy
Beeing aware and understanding that cultural belief of an individual/patients can affect how he or she accepts treatments. Also not assuming that because a person looks like somebody from certain desent, but by asking and letting the individual where possible, so that his/her input may be incooperated in the process and patients will have the feeling that the paticipated in the process of finding how to help them improve their mental health condition . Also understanding the culture of a patient helps the provider in understanding certain behaviors exhibited by a pt ( Eye contact VS looking down) and helps the provider in choosing certain options for treatment available in the culture iof the patient in question.
Psychoeducation
As I provider, I understand that who is educated and knowledgable about various Mental health issues, possible couses and presenting symptoms in order to have accurate Dxs. As a provider, I have long understood that it is very essential that the patient especially as an out patient, person, understands to some extent, what is happening to them, what need to be done to improve the situation and what can happen if the rules are not followed. It is very important to educate the patient systematically and in simple language of about their, illness, interventions/treatment (medication, possible side effect and what signs and symptoms to expect at what time, to avoid unnecessary panic, and at the same time giving the pt a reason to wait when symptoms are decreasing. In my years of practice I have come to realize that proper education/ understanding of patients about their health conditions and their treatments and outcome puts the patients in a driver's seat of their care and can lead to good outcome.
Supportive
As provider who deals with patients with mental health issues, it is very obvious that most patient have little to no self esteem due to the their health condition. As I provider, I try to see each patient from where they are, without comparing one patient with the other even when they have the simila diagnosis because they came from different environments and degree of their illnesses may differ. With the establishment of baseline understanding of my patients, I try to be firm, consistent and verbally and emitionally supportive with them no mather how small their improvement from prior visit so they can keep going and even when there was no new improvement, will keep encouraging the patient and the family to keep going and not giving up and may look for further applicable options.