NURS 243 Concepts of Nursing III

This course introduces psychiatric mental health nursing practice. Essential concepts include cognition, mood regulation, perception, and behavioral health. Clinical and simulation experiences will supplement didactic learning to develop competencies.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

NURS 143

Corequisite

NURS 242, SOCI 101, and SPCH 101 or SPCH 110

Hours Weekly

2 hours theory, 3 hours clinical

Course Objectives

1. 1. Provide patient-centered care understanding the importance of and respect for a patient’s culture, preferences, and values to meet the patient’s mental health needs.
2. 2. Utilize health education principles while implementing health promotion and risk reduction interventions to facilitate optimal patient mental health and well-being.
3. 3. Collaborate with interprofessional team members in multiple practice environments as a patient advocate to provide safe quality mental health nursing care.
4. 4. Communicate effectively to assess the patient’s mental health status, and to develop and manage the plan of care.
5. 5. Demonstrate behaviors which reflect leadership and accountability by adherence to legal, ethical, and professional nursing standards when providing mental health nursing care.
6. 6. Perform nursing interventions to optimize the patient’s health by adherence to policies, procedures, and current standards of practice for psychiatric mental health nursing.
7. 7. Apply professional knowledge, science, and research-based evidence related to mental health to develop nursing judgments.
8. 8. Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge the status quo and question underlying assumptions to improve the quality of mental health nursing care.

Course Objectives

1. 1. Provide patient-centered care understanding the importance of and respect for a patient’s culture, preferences, and values to meet the patient’s mental health needs.
2. 2. Utilize health education principles while implementing health promotion and risk reduction interventions to facilitate optimal patient mental health and well-being.
3. 3. Collaborate with interprofessional team members in multiple practice environments as a patient advocate to provide safe quality mental health nursing care.
4. 4. Communicate effectively to assess the patient’s mental health status, and to develop and manage the plan of care.
5. 5. Demonstrate behaviors which reflect leadership and accountability by adherence to legal, ethical, and professional nursing standards when providing mental health nursing care.
6. 6. Perform nursing interventions to optimize the patient’s health by adherence to policies, procedures, and current standards of practice for psychiatric mental health nursing.
7. 7. Apply professional knowledge, science, and research-based evidence related to mental health to develop nursing judgments.
8. 8. Examine the evidence that underlies clinical nursing practice to challenge the status quo and question underlying assumptions to improve the quality of mental health nursing care.