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Mental Health Nursing & Clinical (NURS 355)

Term: AY 2024-25 Spring

Faculty

Andrea J PicklesimerShow MyInfo popup for Andrea J Picklesimer
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Schedule

Wed, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM (3/17/2025 - 5/15/2025) Location: MAIN NEC 141
Wed, 1:10 PM - 3:00 PM (3/17/2025 - 5/15/2025) Location: MAIN NEC 141

Description

This course presents the theoretical concepts of psychiatric mental health nursing. Principles of communication and interpersonal skills as an intervention in developing therapeutic relationships with clients in psychiatric settings are discussed. Nursing strategies pertaining to the management of illness and symptoms of the psychiatric client are addressed. Ethical, legal, cultural, and spiritual aspects of psychiatric mental health nursing are also examined. The student, through utilization of the nursing process, cares for clients in a rotation of specialty areas requiring psychiatric mental health care. Open to nursing majors only. Pre-requisites: Semester I-V of the nursing major.