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Oct 04, 2024
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NUR 7210 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theory 23 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This class is designed as the second 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, with a focus on child, adolescent, and geriatric populations. The course emphasizes conducting psychiatric assessments, formulating treatment plans, 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 6000 , NUR 6030 , NUR 6200 , NUR 6210 , NUR 6220 , NUR 6230 , NUR 7200 , NUR 7201
Coreq: NUR 7211
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 an understanding of normal and abnormal psychoneurobiology of bipolar, psychotic disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, neurocognitive disorders, PTSD, trauma, and eating disorders
- Use critical and diagnostic reasoning skills in prioritizing clinical diagnostic decisions and formulating differential diagnoses
- Know how to manage the use of mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, and cognitive enhancers: the modes of action, the serious and the common side effects
- Explain the basic principles, theories, and techniques associated with the psychotherapy modalities of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Trauma Informed Care.
- Promote a holistic integrative plan of care across the lifespan
Prerequisites by Topic
- Advanced physical assessment
- Advanced pathophysiology
- Theory and role
- Evidence-based practice
- Pharmacology I
- Pharmacology II
- PMHNP theory and practice I
Course Topics
- Case conceptualization
- Gender affirming care
- Bipolar disorder
- Personality disorders
- Post traumatic stress disorder
- Schizophrenia spectrum disorders
- Dissociative disorders
- Eating disorders
- Child and adolescent mental health
- Geriatric mental health
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
- Trauma informed care
Coordinator
Rebecca Sobanski
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