NRSG 210 - Mental Health Nursing

4 Credit (2 lecture, 0 lab, 2 clinical) 6 Contact Hours [NRSG 130 , NRSG 140 , NRSG 150 , NRSG 160 , and NRSG 170 , or program director approval for advanced standing students]

This course introduces students to psychosocial adaptation to stressors in one’s environment. Recent developments in treatment modalities are presented. The nursing role, using the nursing process, will be examined in a variety of treatment settings, examining clients with a wide variety of diagnoses. The nursing students will work with clients in a variety of settings. The content is focused on helping the nursing student enhance skills and understanding for care of the mental health patient during both sickness and health, and to acquire skills in interpersonal relationships and communication.
Course Goals; Objectives; Competencies
Goal 1: Describe personality development and mental mechanisms.

Goal 2: Differentiate between mental health and mental illness.

Goal 3: Recognize criteria that constitute mental illness.

Goal 4: Identify the nurse’s role and the impact of Health Care Reform in mental health care.

Goal 5: Identify a variety of acute care and community based practice settings.

Goal 6: Identify and utilize resources and community facilities available for treatment of the emotionally impaired/mentally ill.

Goal 7: Identify recent development in treatment modalities and projected future treatments as impacted by Health Care Reform.

Goal 8: Apply the nursing process for clients in the mental health setting to assist their coping/adaptation.

Goal 9: Practice appropriate nursing interventions for the mental health client in the hospital, community, or mental health agency setting.

Goal 10: Examine behavior modification and the use of nursing interventions/adjunct therapies in the treatment of clients with substance abuse.

Goal 11: Provide safe client care to the whole client, family, and community.

Goal 12: Organize, teach, and manage nursing care for clients and families addressing communication, physiologic and psychosocial health management and prevention of disease to clients in a variety of settings.

Goal 13: Examine and apply group process theories.

Goal 14: Develop and practice therapeutic communication techniques with the mental health client.

Goal 15: Validate mental health concepts via the NCLEX Board Review Computer Assisted Instruction.

Goal 16: The student will describe the legal and ethical ramifications of the institutionalized mental health patient.

Goal 17: The student will discuss the legal and ethical considerations for the incarcerated mental health patient.

Goal 18: The student will identify the cultural and ethnic epidemiological and treatment variances for the mental health client.

Goal 19: The student will identify treatment options and structures for individuals and families in mental health settings.

Goal 20: The student will examine their beliefs and values regarding current issues in mental health.