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Oct 04, 2024
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NUR 7220 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Theory 3: Care of Systems3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This class is designed as the third 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 groups and organizations. 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 7210 , NUR 7211
Coreq: NUR 7221
Note: The course includes the second of two in-person PMHNP immersion experiences.
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 in substance abuse disorders
- Use critical and diagnostic reasoning skills in prioritizing clinical diagnostic decisions and formulating differential diagnoses.
- Demonstrate novice understanding of the principles of psychopharmacology.
- Discriminate among the major classes of medications to treat substance abuse disorders, including the modes of action, etiology of serious and common side effects, and teaching implications.
- Explain the basic principles, theories, and techniques associated with the psychotherapy modalities of Group, Interpersonal, Humanistic, Solution-Focused, Motivational Interviewing, and Family therapies
- Recognize the legal, ethical, financial, and human diversity implications for psychiatric-mental health advanced practice nursing and the effect on individuals and families.
- Promote a holistic integrative plan of care
Prerequisites by Topic
- Advanced physical assessment
- Advanced pathophysiology
- Theory and role
- Evidence-based practice
- Pharmacology I
- Pharmacology II
- PMHNP theory and practice I
- PMHNP theory and practice II
Course Topics
- Organizational culture
- Project management
- Group therapy
- Interpersonal therapy
- Humanistic therapy
- Solution-focused therapy
- Motivational interviewing
- Family therapy
- Substance abuse
- Psychiatric emergencies
- Legal considerations
Coordinator
Rebecca Sobanski
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