C Mental Disabilities I

Catalog description

This course introduces the theory, psychological and mental health concepts of psychiatric nursing while exploring the causes and treatments of mental illness in chronically hospitalized and forensic individuals. Students are tasked with caring for a client diagnosed with a mental illness or developmental disability at the tertiary level of intervention with emphasis placed on assessment, intervention and valid rationale for treatment of long term mental illness. Fee for live scan fingerprinting not to exceed $100. (CSU)