Mar 13, 2025  
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1 
    
2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1

NSG 2321 Mental Health Nursing


Lecture: 2 Practica: 2 Total Credits: 4
This course introduces concepts of psychiatric and mental health care. Trends and issues from past and current mental health care and systems are discussed. Ethical and legal issues, sociocultural issues, theories and therapies, drug, complementary and alternative therapies are considered. Therapeutic skills of assessment, communication, relationship and environment are detailed. Students investigate issues and care throughout the life span. Simulations, case studies, projects and presentations help nurses gain a working understanding of these complex patients.

Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of second quarter of PN courses