Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing

Catalog description

In this course, students provide psychiatric nursing care to patients with psychiatric mental health illnesses across the continuum. Students identify evidence-based interventions used in the provision of comprehensive nursing care to patients. The nursing process is used to provide equitable, person-centered care that affirms human diversity and promotes individual empowerment to a diverse patient population with acute and long-term psychiatric conditions. Students have the opportunity for competency development in clinical reasoning and patient care management in a variety of psychiatric and mental health settings.