Mental Health Nursing

Catalog description

This course provides an overview of the underlying concepts, theories, and management functions essential to professional mental health nursing practice with emphasis on intervention, treatment, and prevention strategies. Areas of emphasis include physical and mental illness, community health and prevention, as well as issues related to the rehabilitation process. Topics may include stress, pain management, substance use and abuse, chronic and terminal disease, and behavioral strategies for intervention. Students must successfully complete all requirements of both didactic and clinical courses. Failure of one course will lead to a repeat of both the didactic and clinical courses. Offered every fall and spring.