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May 14, 2024
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NRSG 1340 - Mental Health Nursing
Credit hours: 3
Course Description:
This course applies the core concepts that provide the basis for knowledge, skills and attitudes that are essential for providing safe nursing for clients with alterations in mental health including pharmacological management.
Student Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to meet the eight (8) core competencies related to safe nursing care for mental health clients and families as evidenced by:
- Professional Behavior: Demonstrate ethical, legal, and regulatory frameworks of nursing and standards of professional nursing practice.
- Communication: Demonstrate effective communication including information and technology.
- Assessment: Demonstrate ability to collect subjective and objective data to identify actual or potential health alterations.
- Clinical Decision Making: Formulate clinical decisions to provide safe and effective evidence-based nursing care.
- Caring Interventions: Demonstrate caring interventions that incorporate principles of dignity, diversity safety, and knowledge.
- Teaching and Learning: Develop an individualized teaching plan to meet the learning needs of clients, families, and/or groups.
- Collaboration: Collaborate when planning care.
- Managing Care: Use basic principles of managing care.
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