Mental Health and Psychiatry Nursing II

Catalog description

This course is based on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes developed in the course ENFE 6617. The main focus is the life process of man and his interpersonal relationships within the family, groups, and community structures. The students apply and test theoretical models utilized in the practice of mental health and psychiatric nursing with families, groups and communities in primary, secondary, and tertiary settings. Emphasis is given to the development of skills as a psychotherapeutic nurse in the intervention with families, groups, and communities who have patterns of disorganization. The nursing process is utilized in the analysis of high risk factors that threaten the mental health of individuals. It also includes the identification of inadequate patt erns of functioning in the family groups and community systems with the purpose of formulating the nursing diagnosis, establishing a plan of intervention and evaluating its effectiveness. The students develop instruments for assessing the health status of the community to detect high risk factors in the community. They also develop instruments to evaluate the effectiveness of their nursing intervention.