NUR 4010 - Supportive Care for End-of-Life, Mental Health, and Trauma-Informed Care

3 lecture hours 6 lab hours 5 credits

• Incorporate principles of health promotion, health maintenance, complementary and alternative therapies, and trauma-informed care to provide nursing care for clients needing supportive care (Person-Centered Care, Population Health)
• Construct multidisciplinary treatment plans and apply the nursing process to care for clients and families in need of supportive care (Person-Centered Care, Collaboration)
• Integrate practice standards, pharmacological principles, and clinical reasoning skills into the nursing care of clients in need of supportive care (Clinical Judgment)
• Use self-reflection to explore one’s own beliefs, values, biases to increase self-awareness of the therapeutic self, ability to conduct sensitive or difficult conversations when applying the nursing process to clients and families in need of supportive care (Professional Role)
• Evaluate effectiveness of personal strategies that foster own personal health, resiliency, and well-being as a student and future healthcare provider (Professional Role)
• Deliberate ethical and moral dilemmas and legal issues and the impact of policy while exploring stigma reduction and advocacy for clients and families experiencing supportive care needs (Population Health)
• Participate in the role of care coordinator with other healthcare team members to advocate for and improve health care outcomes for clients as they transition across the continuum of care (Population Health)
• Promote an environment of safety, civility, and respect when caring for clients and families with supportive care needs in collaboration with the health care team (Communication, Collaboration)
• Implement evidence from best practices, including biomedical and mobile technology, in providing nursing care to clients with supportive care needs (Informatics and Healthcare Technologies, Evidence-Based Practice)

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• Vulnerable populations, mental health, and stigma
• Holistic integration of mind, body, spirit, and emotions
• Sustaining the use of self as a therapeutic intervention 
• Human spirituality 
• Cultural perspectives in mental health 
• Communication: Crucial conversation, difficult topics & crisis intervention
• Milieu management and group therapy
• End of life and palliative care
• Technology/ mobile support in enhancing access to care 
• Trauma-informed care
• Victims of abuse, neglect, assault, and trauma
• LGBTQ+ populations
• Legal issues and ethical dilemmas

Mental health conditions and treatment

• Biological underpinnings of mental illness
• Suicide Assessment and safety planning
• Mood disorders: depressive disorder and bipolar disorder
• Anxiety disorders: Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
• Thought disorders: schizophrenia and psychosis
• Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders (PTSD)
• Neurocognitive disorders (NCDs)
• Substance abuse and detoxification
• Eating disorders
• Personality theory and personality disorders
• Child and adolescent mental health/neurodevelopmental disorders  
• ADHD and Autism 

• Clinical experiences
• Lab - EOL simulation; ethical debates