Key Benefit:
Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing: From Suffering to Hope
takes a new approach to educating psychiatric nurses, teaching them how to guide patients from a place of despair to a new beginning. Students will learn to speak like a competent, caring nurse and communicate effectively and compassionately with their patients.
Key Topics:
Framework of Psychiatric–Mental Health Nursing; Past, Present, Future; Biological Basis for Mental Illness; Psychological Concepts: Theories and Therapies; Sociocultural Awareness; Spiritual Competence; Self-Reflection and Self-Awareness; The Nurse–Patient Relationship and Therapeutic Communication; The Nursing Process in Psychiatric– Mental Health Nursing; Ethical and Legal Concepts; Management and Leadership; Sleep–Wake Disorders; Disorders of Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma; Somatic Symptom Disorders and Dissociative Disorders; Feeding and Eating Disorders; Depressive and Bipolar Disorders; Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders; Personality Disorders; Sexual Dysfunctions, Gender Dysphoria, and Paraphilic Disorders; Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders; Neurocognitive Disorders; Complementary and Alternative Therapies; Psychopharmacology; Group and Family Therapy; Aggression and Violence; Crisis Intervention; Preventing and Responding to Suicide; Caring for the Client Who is Grieving; Community-Based Care; Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence; Adult Transitions; Older Adults
Market
: For courses in mental health/psychiatric nursing, for both 4-year BSN-level courses and ADN-level (2-year) programs.