Anna Musgraves

My primary role as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner includes diagnosing and treating mental
health conditions in adolescents and adults through psychotherapy and medication management. This includes conducting initial patient evaluations, obtaining thorough medical and psychiatric histories, interpreting symptoms and behaviors considering various psychiatric and psychological conditions, providing comprehensive explanations of pharmacologic interventions, delicately adjusting psychiatric medications to maximize symptoms control and improve patient outcomes. My responsibilities have expanded to include administering trans-magnetic stimulation (TMS) to patients, administering Spravato and monitoring patients during their treatment, writing office policies and procedures, collaborating to form practice protocols, and developing a new branch of Magnetic Hope's mental health treatment that includes metabolic and functional wellness.

My primary role as a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner involved diagnosing and treating mental
health conditions in children and adolescents through psychotherapy and medication management
including: conducting initial patient evaluations, obtaining thorough medical and psychiatric histories, interpreting symptoms and behaviors considering various psychiatric and psychological conditions, providing comprehensive explanations of pharmacologic interventions, delicately adjusting psychiatric medications to maximize symptoms control and improve patient outcomes, discussing parent-child interactions and behavioral modification techniques, counseling children and parents in resolving personal, social, and psychological problems, assisting families in requesting evaluations for learning accommodation within the school system, collaborating with my supervising physician and other health care professionals to ensure patients receive high-quality, holistic care.

My primary role as a family nurse practitioner involved diagnosing and treating medical conditions in
individuals across the lifespan. This included using the patient-centered medical home model to provide primary care services, addressing the physical, mental, and spiritual needs of patients, conducting initial patient evaluations and screenings, obtaining past medical, family, and social histories, performing physical exams and various in-office procedures, interpreting exam findings and lab values in light of evidence-based research to determine most appropriate course of treatment, prescribing medications for the treatment of acute and chronic medical conditions, facilitating care for those without access to specialty services, connecting with necessary resources to address social determinants of health.

My primary role as a registered nurse involved providing direct nursing care for children in critical
conditions including collaborating with healthcare team members to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate care plans, preparing and administering prescribed medications, recording patient progress, care data, and vital signs, monitoring and adjusting specialized equipment used on patients while also interpreting data from electronic displays, such as intracranial pressures, cardiac rhythms from cardiac monitors, respirators,
oxygen pumps, chest tubes, wound vacs, etc., updating patients, family members, and doctors on the patient’s status, delegating tasks to nursing assistants and other support staff acting as a patient advocate, identifying subtle changes in a patient’s medical condition and responding promptly to life-threatening
situations.

My primary role as a clinical/nursing assistant involved providing basic care to patients and assisting the nursing
staff with medical tasks including helping patients perform activities of daily living such as bathing, dressing, and eating, changing linens, stocking patient rooms with necessary supplies, setting up the room for new patient admissions and clearing the room of all equipment upon discharge, escorting patients, playing games with the children as means of distraction during medical procedures, assisting the nursing staff as they placed intravenous lines, changed dressings, replaced medical
tubing, etc., performing one to one supervision for patients at risk of self-harm.