Foundations of Psychiatric Advanced Practice Nursing Credits: 3

Catalog description

This foundational course focuses on factors impacting mental health and the development of psychiatric disorders. The scope of practice and roles of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner will be introduced. Both pharmacological and nonpharmacological therapeutic modalities will be explored. Comprehensive psychiatric evaluation skills will be developed. Attention will be given to the development of therapeutic relationships, assessment considerations across the lifespan, crisis evaluation and different types of diagnostic tools and approaches. Diagnostic reasoning skills will be applied to mental illness and students will begin to integrate assessment finding into diagnoses in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.