PNSG 1755 - Behavioral Health Concepts
2 Credits
Prerequisites PNSG 1010 , PNSG 1355 , PNSG 1400 , PNSG 1600
Psychosocial nursing care focuses on the care of patients with psychiatric and behavioral disorders. Emphasis is placed on common psychiatric and behavioral disorders as well as promoting and maintaining the mental health of individuals. Role and standards of practice for mental health nursing, therapeutic communication skills when working wit psychiatric and behavioral disorders, therapeutic modalities including pharmacotherapeutics, anxiety disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders, psyhotic disorders, chemical impairment and substance abuse, abuse and violence.
Learning Outcomes
Analyze (potential/actual) patient complications and interventions from an established plan of care to implement for individual patients with psychiatric or behavioral disorders (i.e. report changes to the appropriate health care provider, etc.) Organize data to contribute to established plans of care for individual patients with psychiatric or behavioral disorders. Provide rationales for nursing judgments and prioritization of care for individual patients with psychiatric or behavioral disorders. Describe caring, culturally sensitive, therapeutic communication with individual patients experiencing psychiatric or behavioral disorders. Analyze ethical and legal implications related to the care of individual patients with psychiatric or behavioral disorders.
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