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Apr 26, 2024
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NUR 420 - Mental Health Nursing
Credit(s): 4
This course explores a patient-centered, culturally sensitive approach to the health care needs of individuals, families and groups experiencing alterations in mental health across the lifespan. Emphasis is placed upon theoretical knowledge and evidence-based practice to understand, promote, maintain and restore mental health. Students will be instructed in the importance of self as a therapeutic tool, the principles of therapeutic relationships, and the knowledge of psychopathology. Learners will develop and practice mental health assessments and health promotion strategies, plans of care, therapeutic communication skills, nursing interventions, medication management, and rehabilitative processes to provide knowledgeable, sensitive, holistic nursing care for individuals and groups experiencing acute and chronic mental health conditions. FA
Prerequisite(s): NUR 210 , NUR 310 , NUR 320 , NUR 330 , NUR 340 , NUR 350 , NUR 360 Corequisite(s): NUR 410 , NUR 460 , NUR 470
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