NUR 404: Holistic Nursing Care V: Mental Health Nursing

Content: Foundational knowledge of mental health and physical care is explored using common psychotic behaviors and their impact on health and disease. Developmental and life cycle models used as underpinnings for exploring the physiological and psychological changes in the human lifespan provide the foundation for care of clients in psychiatric/mental health settings. The nursing process will be applied to psychiatric/mental health clients along the health/illness continuum in a variety of settings. Social and political factors that impact the client in psychiatric/mental health settings will be analyzed.
Taught: Fall
Prerequisite(s): NUR 304, NUR 306, NUR 314, NUR 315.
Credit: 4
Note: 3 class hours, 3 clinical hours
Degree Level: Undergraduate