Community Mental Health Nursing

Catalog description

This course builds on previously learned concepts and theories, with students applying the nursing process, therapeutic communication, and critical thinking in caring for patients and their families experiencing mental, psychological and psychiatric disorders. Patient teaching and collaboration among the nurse, patients, and family members are covered. Increased emphasis is placed on utilizing the nursing process to identify and prioritize the health care needs of patients with increasingly less predictable outcomes or who demonstrate a change in their health status. Concepts pertaining to working as a member of a professional member of a healthcare team are incorporated. The course has a theory and clinical component.