PNURSE 104 - Mental Health in Nursing

1. Describe mental health, mental illness, the principles of mental health care and the continuum between both mental health and mental illness.
2. Discuss factors impacting mental health including culture, socioeconomic, legal, ethical, social determinants of health, and changes in the health care system.  
3. Describe theorists and psychotherapies related to their impact on personality and behavior.
4. Discuss the role of stress, adaptation, coping, illness, and crisis related to mental health.
5. Describe components of a therapeutic relationship and therapeutic environment.
6. Examine the indications, implications, side effects, contraindications, client teaching and safety precautions for clients receiving medications for mental health disorders.
7. Discuss the use of the DSM-V multi-axial system for classification of mental disorders.
8. Discuss the role of the nurse, caring for clients with psychological and psychosocial problems, using clinical judgment with the healthcare team.

1. Provide safe, quality, evidence-based, innovative client-centered nursing care to diverse clients across the lifespan.
2. Engage in the nursing process and clinical judgment that integrates evidence, nursing, physical and psychosocial sciences, to ensure healthcare quality and safety, and make client/relationship centered care decisions within the scope of practice of the practical nurse.
3. Participate in collaboration and teamwork with the inter-professional team, the client, and the client’s support persons to provide and improve client care and communication.
4. Integrate quality improvement activities and advocacy skills to enhance client care.
5. Utilize information technology and supportive resources to improve client care processes within the healthcare system.
6. Incorporate legal and ethical guidelines within the scope of practice of a practical nurse to enhance client care and professional development.

• Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
• Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.
• Quantitative and Symbolic Reasoning - Quantitative Reasoning encompasses abilities necessary for a student to become literate in today’s technological world. Quantitative reasoning begins with basic skills and extends to problem solving.
• Written Communication - Written Communication encompasses all the abilities necessary for effective expression of thoughts, feelings, and ideas in written form.