COURSE REVISION FORM
REVISED 10/10/2014
We recommend that you begin the courserevision process by engaging in meaningful conversations with your departmental colleagues and those colleagues who use the course in question as a service course.
The course revision initiator and/or the sponsoring department chair should attend and be prepared to address questions at the appropriate department meeting, Curriculum Committee meeting and Faculty Council meeting.
I. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
COURSE PREFIX AND NUMBER: Nur 202
COMPLETE COURSE TITLE: MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
DATE: 11/07/2014 COURSE REVISION INITIATOR: Susie Ryan
SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Nursing & Allied Health
THE COURSE BEING REVISED IS NOT A TOPICS COURSE.
COURSE REVISION EFFECTIVE DATE: fall 2015
DESCRIPTION OF ALL COURSE REVISIONS:
Student Learning Objectives and Unit Objectives revised to meet Graduate Learning Objectives.
JUSTIFICATION FOR EACH COURSE REVISION:
See Program Revision
POSSIBLE IMPACT ON CURRENT CURRICULA:
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II. MASTER COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE PREFIX AND NUMBER: Nur 202
COMPLETE COURSE TITLE: Mental Health Nursing
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COURSE DESCRIPTION FOR CATALOG:
The focus of this course is the individual's biopsychosocial adaptation to life events. The interrelationship among the concepts of person, health and nursing is developed. The student applies the nursing process to meet health care needs of clients experiencing mental health problems that threaten or disrupt life status. Clinical experiences include assignments in the hospital and community setting.
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IMPORTANT ADVISING NOTES:
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MEASURABLE STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES/COURSE OBJECTIVES:
STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES: At the completion of the course, it is expected that the student can:
1. Provide a safe milieu for patients, self, and others as demonstrated through the nursing process.
2. Apply caring behaviors and integrate non-judgmental thinking with patients, and their families, who live with a mental illness.
3. Utilize therapeutic communication skills while providing empathetic and holistic care across the life span.
4. Demonstrate professional identity and develop self-awareness and commitment for lifelong learning.
5. Utilize critical reasoning skills to develop and implement a psychiatric nursing care plan.
UNIT I - CONCEPTS BASIC TO MENTAL HEALTH NURSING
Unit objectives:
1. Review and comprehend the introduction of mental health nursing and concepts.
2. Understand the role of the psychiatric nurse in the acute care setting.
3. Evaluate legal and ethical issues related to mental health nursing.
4. Understand the standards of mental health nursing and the nursing process.
5. Describe the nurse client relationship and demonstrate effective and therapeutic communication skills.
UNIT II – ANXIETY AND CRISIS INTERVENTION
Unit Objectives:
1. Understand anxiety and stress adaptation and is able to name characteristics of each level of anxiety.
2. Compare and contrast primary, secondary and tertiary levels of nursing care in
relationship to crisis intervention.
3. Give examples of defense mechanisms that are both adaptive and maladaptive.
4. Understand the treatment used in anxiety disorders and crisis.
UNIT III - CLIENTS IN THE MODERATE TO SEVERE RANGE ON THE MENTAL HEALTH CONTINUUM
Unit Objectives:
1. Understand Anxiety Disorders and the Nursing Process
2. Discuss Somatoform and Dissociative Disorders and the Nursing Process
3. Understand Personality Disorders and the Nursing Process
4. Describe the use of self as a therapeutic tool in dealing with clients
experiencing anxiety, somatoform, dissociative and personality disorders.
UNIT IV - CLIENTS IN THE SEVERE TO PSYCHOTIC RANGE ON THE MENTAL HEALTH CONTINUUM
Unit Objectives:
1. Understand and describe Grief Reactions, Suicide, and Depressive Disorders
2. Describe and understand Affective Disorders
3. Describe and understand Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders
4. Understand the treatment related to affective disorders and psychotic disorders.
UNIT V - CLIENTS WHO EMPLOY SELF-DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOR
Unit Objectives:
1. Learn how to care for the Substance Abuse Client
2. Learn how to care and treat clients with Eating Disorders
3. Identify community resources aimed at assisting clients and families to
cope with alcoholism, substance abuse or an eating disorder.
UNIT VI – MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES ALONG THE LIFE SPAN
Unit Objectives:
1. Understand the Geriatric Client and Mental Illness
2. Identify nursing interventions related to Cognitive Impairment Disorders
3. Understand the treatment and nursing process related to Child and Adolescent Mental Illness
Unit VII - SEMINAR SERIES (Dates vary according to Clinical Groups - See Group Schedule)
Unit Objectives:
1. Implement Safety and Effective Communication Skills within the Clinical Environment.
2. Discuss the relationship between Chronic Mental Illnesses, Homelessness, and the Community Setting.
3. Identify preventive measures for Family Violence and understand the Nurses Role.
4. Understand the Role of the Nurse in Family and Therapeutic Group Settings.
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III. APPROVAL