Advanced Forensic Nursing II: Program Development Leadership and Policy

Catalog description

This course provides an opportunity for nurses to acquire specific knowledge related to care of the forensic patient based on scientific, ethical, and legal principles related to forensic nursing practice. Students will examine models of nursing from a holistic perspective and the use theory from nursing, related sciences and law to develop theoretical frameworks for guiding forensic nursing practice. Theories and research focused on individual strengths and dysfunctions are examined. Clinical therapeutics focuses on individual mental and physical health, and maximizing function for victims and the perpetrators, and their families through interventions. The role and responsibility of the advanced practice forensic nurse in health care policy is addressed.