Mental Health Nursing.

Catalog description

Introduction to mental health nursing services and nurse-person and nurse-group communication patterns.  Focus is on interdisciplinary collaboration, teaching-learning, therapeutic communication, and change-persistence patterns with health promotion, disease prevention, and care of individuals, families, and communities of diverse cultural backgrounds with acute and chronic mental health conditions.  Nursing services with special populations, including the homeless and issues regarding abuse, neglect, trauma, and substance abuse are explored. Students will complete supervised clinical practice hours with a clinical faculty member in a mental health setting. Prerequisite: Admission in the ELMSN program or instructor permission.