Psychosocial and Mental Health.

Catalog description

Building on the fundamentals of care for the roles of the professional nurse as a provider of patient-centered care, member of the profession and healthcare team, and patient safety advocate with Marianist values, this course focuses on patient-centered care clinical concepts and skills in the care of those experiencing stressful events and those with mental illness. Students develop an understanding of the social determinants of health and their impact of the emotional health and social well-being and consider nursing implications for healthcare policy. Students begin to utilize the nursing process to plan for safe, evidence-based, strategies and demonstrate caring and compassionate behaviors to assist patients with mental illness and their families to enhance, protect or preserve optimum emotional, social, and mental health. The course imparts nursing knowledge, develops clinical judgement skills, fosters situational awareness, communication, and assessment skills central to the nursing process in the care of patients with mental health disorders. Application of clinical concepts and skills are practiced in simulation and various clinical settings. Credit Hours 4 (2 didactic; 2 clinical/simulation) Prerequisite: NU 2601 Fundamentals of Care; NU 3202 . Healthcare Informatics and Technology; NU 2303 Holistic Health Assessment. An additional fee is associated with this course. See the fee schedule for details at https://www.stmarytx.edu/admission/financial-aid/tuition/.