Matching Interventions and Goals in Antipsychotic Treatment for Patient-Centered Care

Psych Congress NP Institute Steering Committee Member, Amber Hoberg, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, of Morningstar Family Medicine, discusses why matching interventions and clinical factors to patients' needs is key to successful treatment with antipsychotics. In this video, learn how to extrapolate and prioritize the patient's goals to tailor your treatment approach accordingly.

Amber Hoberg, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC, is a board-certified psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner from University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio. She has been working for the past 12 years with the adult and geriatric populations, treating all types of psychiatric conditions. Her background, as a Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nurse, includes outpatient, inpatient, group home, and nursing home/ALF settings. She currently works for Baptist Health System and Morning Star Family Medicine PLLC treating the chronically mentally ill in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

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Hi, I'm Amber Hoberg. I am a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner in San Antonio, Texas with Morningstar Family Medicine. I'm also a section editor for Psyyh Congress Network. 

Matching your interventions and clinical factors to your patients can be achieved by ensuring that you put the patient first.

Make sure that you lead not with what you want but with that patient's ultimate goal. Sometimes, our goals may be very heroic, but they may not be what's important to the patient. What our patient's goals are are what is important to them. So, make sure that we are trying to match our interventions and approach to our patient's needs.

If their needs are, "well, I need to be able to get my medication, but I don't have transportation," maybe match them with a group that brings out case managers in order to maybe bring them their medications or provide them some type of information on transportation services that might help them get to the pharmacy to be able to get their medications. Or maybe your patient is not wanting to take a certain medication.

Try to use motivational interviewing by asking them what it is that's making them not want to take the medication. Are there adverse events maybe that they're experiencing? Is there some kind of stigma that's going on that makes them not want to take a particular medication? And then offering them solutions or finding out what their goals are and helping them meet that level of change by maybe accepting the medications by using their goals as the way to get them to where they need to be.

There's lots of different factors that you can use, but always make sure you lead with the patient's needs first.