Description
This course provides the student with knowledge, skills and experiences related to Psychiatric-Mental health nursing, as an opportunity to apply previously learned behavioral and scientific concepts. This course will provide the nursing student an understanding of the study of nursing through the discussion of the institution’s nursing philosophy and core characteristics of caring empathy, clinical judgment, therapeutic communication, acceptance of diversity, interpreter and provider of learning and lifelong learning as they relate to alterations in physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual needs of the person. This course provides students with didactic and clinical learning experiences utilizing the nursing process as a means of providing care to individuals, families and groups experiencing maladaptative alterations in mental health. Psychopathology of mental disorders is reviewed. Application of the nursing process within a multidisciplinary team approach is highlighted. Emphasis is on the therapeutic use of self with individuals, families, and groups in an acute psychiatric care setting. The course prepares students to communicate professionally in the health care environment. It exposes students to maladaptive behaviors as they relate to safe, competent nursing skills. A holistic approach, which combines medical nursing and mental health nursing, will enable students to develop roles as a communicator in the therapeutic nurse/client relationship, advocator of client’s rights and caregiver.
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