NURS 2430 Semester 3 Mental Health

Course Information

Pre/Corequisites

Prerequisite: Successfully complete all Semester 2 Courses in order to advance to Semester 3 Courses

Institutional Core Competencies

• Cultural Competence - Students will be able to demonstrate an attitude of personal curiosity, a rising knowledge of cultures, and an evolving range of skills for living and working among others with other worldviews and ways of life.
• Communication - Students will be able to demonstrate appropriate and effective interactions with others to achieve their personal, academic, and professional objectives.
• Civic Engagement and Social Responsibility - Students will be able to demonstrate the ability to engage in the social responsibilities expected of a community member.
• Critical and Creative Thinking - Students will be able to demonstrate purposeful thinking with the goal of using a creative process for developing and building upon ideas and/or the goal of using a critical process for the analyzing and evaluating of ideas.

Course Competencies

1. Apply emotional and psychosocial development concepts throughout the lifespan.
2. Utilize nursing judgment in the care of clients with mental illness.
3. Examine the impact of culture on the client and family or support person(s).
4. Categorize the medications used in treatment of mental illness.
5. Examine principles of treatment for individuals experiencing alterations in mental health and illness.
6. Use professional terminology to describe disorders and behaviors of the client, family or support person(s).
7. Differentiate principles of treatment for the patient/family or support person(s) with mental illness.
8. Implement critical thinking and the nursing process to devise a comprehensive plan of care for patients with mental illness and their family or support person(s).