Professional relationships, ethical and legal issues will be explored. Experiential communication and psychomotor labs will be a component of this course. This course introduces the student to the psychiatric nursing role. Students will focus on developing personal self-awareness and promoting health in selected clients in a variety of medical and mental health settings in the community. Students will begin to assess and set priorities to organize care.
Weekly seminars assist to integrate concepts across practice settings.
This course examines a person s lived experience with episodic health challenges throughout the life cycle within families, groups and communities. Concepts of acuity, crisis, dependency, fear, pain, anger, euphoria, hope, forgiveness and patterns of suspiciousness, aggression, manipulation, elation and self-destruction with be examined building on previous concepts and patterns. Professional relationships, ethical and legal issues and health care trends will be explored. Experiential communication and psychomotor labs will be components of this course. Laboratory 1.5 hrs.