NUR 360 - Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing

3 cr.

NUR 360 Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing addresses mental health issues within a holistic nursing context, emphasizing adaptive and maladaptive behaviors of humans experiencing alterations in the essential life functions with emphasis on protective and psycho-social-cultural functions; those concepts that have evolved through the most current and comprehensive trends and evidence-based practices in psychiatric mental health nursing. The historical and theoretical background of mental health nursing will be introduced within the content of how mental health has impacted the practice of nurses today. Concepts relevant to mental health and psychiatric nursing practice will also be emphasized. Prerequisites: PSY 101, PSY 204 and NUR 220,NUR 220L or NUR 299 . Co-requisite: NUR 360L