Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing – Theory

Catalog description

This course discusses application of the nursing process to meet the needs of clients at all stages of life with common psychiatric and mental health disorders. Theories of psychiatric and mental health are integrated with the RN role and scope of practice, citing healthy as well as maladaptive behaviors. Critical thinking and problem- solving skills are utilized in individual and group exercises to demonstrate application of concepts. Corequisite: RN215, successful completion of which is needed to take the RN210 final exam.