NU 343 - Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Essential components of psychiatric and mental health nursing are presented in this course. Students develop therapeutic relationships with and provide nursing care for special populations of clients experiencing acute or chronic psychopathology. Clinical assignments take place in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Students are introduced to mental disorders as biochemical-based disease processes impacted by developmental, sociocultural, psychological, physiological, and spiritual variables occurring along a continuum of mental health and alterations in mental illness. A lifespan approach is incorporated which includes primary, secondary, and tertiary interventions.

Four credits.

Prerequisite(s): This course requires successful completion of the nursing courses preceding it up to and including NU 236.