NURS 314

I.    Course Title:  Nursing Process Psychiatric/ Mental Health

II.    Course Prefix/Number: NURS 314

III.    Credit Hours: 3 credits

IV.    Prerequisites: NURS 303 , NURS 340

        Corequisites: NURS 358C

V.    Course Description:

This course explores the generalist nursing roles of provider, designer, manager, and coordinator of care as they relate to the promotion of mental health along the mental health mental illness continuum across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed on nursing strategies that promote mental health and safe, quality patient-centered care across the life continuum.

VI.    Course Objectives: 

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

1. Examine mental health and selected symptoms and diagnoses of mental illness across the life span.
2. Incorporate therapeutic communication skills and culturally competent behaviors as an advocate for clients with mental illness and their families and caregivers across the life span.
3. Employ an interprofessional approach in developing strategies that promote mental health, symptom management, quality of life and safety for clients with mental illness, their families and the community.
4. Classify risk reduction strategies and advocacy in addressing individual, family and societal violence including prevention of patient suicide, abuse, neglect, and abandonment.
5. Discover how mental health care policies, legislative processes, finance, and regulatory environments influence nursing practice and mental health care delivery.

VII.    Date of Syllabus Approval: