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NU 4600 - Nursing Care of Clients with Mental Health Challenges

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course focuses on the application of the nursing process with individuals and families experiencing mental health challenges. Students explore therapeutic use of self. Emphasis is placed on application of therapeutic communication techniques, psychiatric assessment skills, and the nursing process. The impact of the therapeutic environment upon the treatment of specific psychiatric populations across the lifespan are discussed. Students explore legal and ethical issues, mental health research, and current trends in mental health. (prereq: SS 466 , NU 3400 , NU 3600 )
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
• Construct multidisciplinary treatment plans grounded in the nursing process for clients experiencing mental health challenges (Level 4, Nursing Care)
• Incorporate principles of health promotion, health maintenance and health restoration across the lifespan when providing professional nursing care for clients with mental health challenges (Level 4, Health Concepts)
• Assume a professional practice role that is responsive to the needs of society (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Integrate historical context of nursing into one’s professional practice (Level 4, Professional Role)
• Demonstrate initiative to seek out new learning opportunities and expand knowledge base establishing a pattern for lifelong learning (Level 4, Life-long Learning)
• Integrate critical thinking skills in diverse mental health care situations (Level 4, Critical Thinking)
• Synthesize research findings and knowledge from the humanities and sciences into professional nursing practice for clients’ experiencing mental health care challenges (Level 4, Knowledge Development)
Prerequisites by Topic
None appended.
Course Topics
• Legal, Cultural and Political Issues
• Perceptual Pattern: Acute Confusion-Alcohol Withdrawal
• Role-Relationship Pattern: Altered Family Processes: Family Violence; Self-Perception-Self-Concept
• Role-Relationship Pattern
• Cognitive-Perceptual Pattern
• Elimination Pattern: Fatigue/Self-Care Deficit;
• Nutritional-Metabolic Pattern: Eating Disorders
• Dysfunctional Grieving: Social Isolation
• Personal Identify Disturbance: Impaired Social Interaction
• Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
• Sexuality-Reproductive Pattern
• Integrating Research into Practice
• Health Policy Monitoring
Coordinator
Catherine Leffler


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