Nursing Care of Clients with Psychosocial Disorders

Catalog description

This course emphasizes the process of psychosocial adaptation in persons with acute and chronic mental disorders. The course also contains a clinical component that focuses on nursing care of clients in the psychosocial setting. The importance of critical thinking and developing evidence-based practice in the psychosocial setting will be emphasized. (2-hour class and 6 hours clinical per week.) Prerequisites: NUR 300, 311, 317, 321