Clinical Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nursing: Internship III

Catalog description

This is the third of three clinical internships that focuses the psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner student on primary assessment and diagnostic skills needed to build appropriate therapeutic interventions with patients throughout the lifespan who exhibit severe mental illness. Students continue to develop skills with critical thinking and decision-making, comprehensive assessment, differential diagnosis, and evidence-based interventions, including pharmacology. Special emphasis is on the breadth of roles of the psychiatric and mental health advanced practice nurse, particularly in collaboration with other members of the transdisciplinary health care team. Requires precepted clinical practice hours.