Mental Health Tertiary Care

Catalog description

Part I: This course focuses on the care of patients experiencing mental and behavioral disorders. Emphasis is placed on the management of patients facing emotional and psychological stressors as well as promoting and maintaining the mental health of individuals and families. Concepts of crisis intervention, therapeutic communication, anger management, and coping skills are integrated throughout the course. Clinical experiences provide the student with an opportunity to apply theoretical concepts and implement safe patient care to patients in mental health settings. Part II: Tertiary care nursing: Care for individuals, families, and aggregates highly specialized consultative care that involves advanced and complex procedures and treatments performed by medical specialists (such as pediatric centers, Oncology centers, burn centers, palliative care, plastic surgery, psychiatric hospitals) and community. The focus of tertiary care includes, but not limited to management of complex health issues, health promotion, disease prevention, risk reduction, health maintenance, and rehabilitation, injury prevention of adult and geriatric patients from diverse backgrounds. This course allows the students to improve and advance their abilities to critically think and apply evidence-based practice to formulate differential diagnoses, clinical impressions, nursing diagnoses for treatment and evaluation of care provided to adult and geriatric patients.