NRSG 1340 - Mental Health Nursing

3 sem hrs cr (2 lecture; 1 clinical/lab)

This course applies the core concepts that provide the basis for knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are essential for providing safe nursing for clients with alterations in mental health including pharmacological management. Prerequisite: NRSG 1710 Fundamentals in Nursing ; BIOL 2010 , ENGL 1010 , PSYC 1030   Prerequisite or Corequisite: BIOL 2020 ; MATH 1530  

In rare and unusual circumstances, a course prerequisite can be overridden with the permission of the Department Lead for the discipline. 

Transfer (UT) or Non-Transfer Course (UN): UN

To successfully complete NRSG 1340, the student will be able to demonstrate the following competencies and behaviors:

• PROFESSIONAL BEHAVIORS
  • Conduct self in a professional manner in dress and conduct while caring for clients and interacting with clients, instructors, peers, and the health care team.
  • Practice within the legal, ethical and regulatory frameworks of the nursing profession and the standards of professional nursing practice.
  • Demonstrate accountability for nursing care given by self.
• COMMUNICATION
  • Demonstrate basic effective communication with clients and members of the healthcare team using oral communication.
• ASSESSMENT
  • Demonstrate the ability to collect subjective and objective data to identify actual or potential health alterations.
  • Perform psychosocial assessments; utilize normal and abnormal findings and other supportive data to identify appropriate nursing diagnoses with instructor assistance.
  • Assess the client and significant support person(s) and identify learning strengths, barriers, and educational needs.
• CLINICAL DECISION MAKING
  • Formulate clinical decisions to provide safe and effective evidenced based nursing care.
  • Utilize assessment data to evaluate the client’s condition and plan care.
• CARING INTERVENTIONS
  • Demonstrate preparedness to safely provide care for client(s).
  • Demonstrate caring interventions that incorporate principles of dignity, diversity, safety and knowledge.
  • Create a safe physical and psychosocial environment to protect the client(s) from injury, infection, and harm.
  • Demonstrate knowledge of medications to evaluate desired effects and monitor for side effects.
  • Continue to demonstrate competency in previously learned skills and theory and apply these to the clinical setting.
  • Utilize theory knowledge regarding disease processes and human physiology to identify clinical signs and symptoms.
  • Plan care based on an understanding of disease process. Identify varied treatment modalities and implement with instructor assistance.
• TEACHING
  • Incorporate teaching into the plan of care.
• COLLABORATION
  • Collaborate with clients and significant support persons to identify health goals and promote optimal health maintenance.
  • Identify and interact with members of the health care team who are involved in the coordination of cost effective, competent care with positive quality outcomes.
  • Interact with client, support person(s), clinical instructor, and members of the health care team to identify and solve problems, which may impede the achievement of client goals and outcomes.
• COORDINATION & MANAGEMENT
  • Using basic principles of managing care, identify prioritization of client needs and nursing actions to ensure positive outcomes.
  • Discuss available resources, time constraints and environmental factors, which affect the management of the client’s care.