Psychiatric/Mental Health Nursing

Catalog description

Focuses on nursing care for clients experiencing significant life cycle events that have a major impact on self-care management, lifestyles and activities of individuals and small groups. These life-cycle events result in alterations, primarily in psychological homeostasis that range from minor alterations such as anxiety to major alterations such as psychotic disorders. Students will effectively use therapeutic communication and interventions to help restore psychological and physiological homeostasis.