Humanistic Nursing Care in Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing Practice

Catalog description

This Level IV theory and clinical nursing course focuses on the expansion, synthesis, and application of prior knowledge. Mental health nursing concepts and knowledge needed to provide humanistic nursing care to individuals across the lifespan, families, communities, and populations will be presented. Important concepts for provision of nursing care to patients with mental health issues will be explored. Nursing implications of genetics/genomics will be discussed as it relates to relevant acute and chronic mental health illnesses. Clinical experience will provide the student opportunities for synthesis and application of theory and practice. Mental health issues and approaches will be incorporated into the clinical experience. This full semester 4 credit course allocates: two (2) hour/week theory course, 1 credit towards 37.5 hours face to face patient encounters and 1 credit (25 hrs) to alternative clinical experiences including high fidelity simulation, v-sim experiences, case studies, and other modalities for a total or 62.5 clinical hours.