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Oct 04, 2024
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NUR 7200 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theory 13 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This class is designed as the first in a three-course sequence in psychiatric-mental health advanced practice nursing with a focus on clinical practice guidelines for assessing, diagnosing, and treating acute and chronic mental health problems across the lifespan. The course emphasizes clinical interviewing skills, differential diagnoses, individual psychotherapy, psychopharmacological prescribing, and prevention of illness. A variety of modalities will be covered to develop skills in safe, effective, ethical, integrative, and holistic person-centered care and health promotion while advancing knowledge of the scope of practice of the psychiatric-mental health nurse practitioner.
Prereq: NUR 6200 , NUR 6210 , NUR 6220 , NUR 6230
Coreq: NUR 7201
Note: None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate culturally appropriate person-centered therapeutic relationship-building, assessment, intervention, and evaluation skills in the holistic care of clients across the lifespan
- Demonstrate understanding of normal and abnormal psychoneurobiology involved in depression and anxiety
- Apply the basic principles, theories, and techniques associated with psychotherapy modalities
- Demonstrate entry level knowledge of the principles of psychopharmacology
- Discriminate between the major classes of medications used to treat depression and anxiety across the lifespan, including modes of action, etiology of serious and common side effects, and teaching implications
- Promote a holistic integrative plan of care for clients across the lifespan
Prerequisites by Topic
- Advanced physical assessment
- Advanced pathophysiology
- Theory and role
- Evidence-based practice
- Advanced pharmacology
- Neurobiology and pharmacology
Course Topics
- Basic principles of psychotherapy
- Holistic nursing theory
- Interviewing skills
- Psychiatric assessment
- Differential diagnoses
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Exposure Therapy
Coordinator
Rebecca Sobanski
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