Introduces the second semester nursing student to the role of the nurse as a provider of care for clients with mental health disorders with emphasis on therapeutic communication techniques. Course presents the mental-health/mental-illness continuum as a framework for differentiating between healthy and unhealthy mental health behaviors. Discusses how to utilizes critical thinking skills, in a systematic, problem solving process, to provide safe and effective care to clients in the psychiatric mental health setting. This course includes supervised clinical agency/laboratory practicums. Course comprised of two hours of lecture and six hours of lab/clinical per week.
Goals, Topics, and Objectives
- Caring
- Clinical Decision Making
- Communication
- Culture
- Diversity
- Evidence Based Practice
- Health
- Illness
- Safety
- Wellness
- Addictions
- Advocacy
- Anxiety
- Cognition
- Collaboration
- Ethics
- Grief
- Health Care Systems
- Legal
- Mood and Affect
- Patient Education
- Psychosis
- Self
- Stess and Coping
- Spirituality
- Violence
- Incorporate evidence-based practice in the care of clients in the psychiatric mental health setting.
- Utilize effective strategies (therapeutic and interpersonal communication skills) to communicate with clients and others of the health care team.
- Utilize the nursing process and standards of care to safely manage care of clients in the psychiatric mental health setting.
- Discuss the importance of understanding cultural variation when planning and implementing care.
- Collaborate with clients, significant others, and members of the health care delivery team to promote optimal care.
- Give examples of critical thinking and clinical reasoning to make sound clinical judgments in the care of clients in the psychiatric mental health setting.
- Identify the rights of mental health clients when advocating for compassionate care.
The first ten topics are core concepts reinforced across the curriculum.
Assessment and Requirements
Assessments of academic achievement may include, but are not limited to skills demonstration, written assignments, research papers, case studies, multiple choice testing and hands-on clinical practice
Outcomes
Credit for Prior College-Level Learning
Mental Health/Psychiatric HESI exam with score 900 or higher. Maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also perform a psychiatric simulation demonstration.
Psychiatric Simulation demonstration, given in department by department faculty. Faculty will assess demonstration based on evaluation rubric. Evaluation rubric and student checklist located in The School of Health and Human Services office. Student must pass the graded rubric with an 80% or higher with the maximum number of attempts: two. Students must also take an exam.