NURS 414 Clinical Application for Mental Health Nursing

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course provides clinical experience for nursing intervention development for promoting, maintaining, and restoring mental health across the lifespan integrating principles of professional relationships, therapeutic communication, and concepts of psychopathology.
 
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

1. Apply theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines and cultures in providing care for diverse individuals, families, and communities living with mental health problems.
2. Apply factors that create a culture of caring and advocacy while providing care for groups of diverse individuals, families, and communities experiencing mental health problems.
3. Provide safe, high quality, and consumer-centered mental healthcare.
4. Integrate evidence, clinical judgment, interprofessional perspectives, and patient preferences in planning, implementing and evaluating comprehensive mental healthcare.
5. Apply self-knowledge gained through reflection on one’s own beliefs and values while providing mental healthcare to diverse individuals, families, and communities experiencing mental health problems.
6. Practice therapeutic use of self while promoting recovery with diverse individuals, families, and communities experiencing mental health problems.